I have a ejb project, with Arquillian unit tests working perfectly with both embedded TomEE and managed JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final

Up to now, the transaction management is handled manually, asking for a UserTransaction injection to the container. begining, commiting and rolling back in each test manually.

After some research I added the transaction-extension to my project:

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Now, my tests are marked with @Transactional, and I removed every begin()/commit()/rollback() from everywhere. Everything worked as expected in TomEE, but JBoss throws:

Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed obtaining transaction.

        at org.jboss.arquillian.transaction.jta.provider.JtaTransactionProvider.getUserTransaction(JtaTransactionProvider.java:118)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.transaction.jta.provider.JtaTransactionProvider.beginTransaction(JtaTransactionProvider.java:56)

        ... 68 more

Caused by: javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: UserTransaction -- service jboss.naming.context.java.module.mercury.mercury-ejbs.UserTransaction

        at org.jboss.as.naming.ServiceBasedNamingStore.lookup(ServiceBasedNamingStore.java:97)

        at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:178)

        at org.jboss.as.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:123)

        at org.jboss.as.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:214)

        at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:411)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.transaction.jta.provider.JtaTransactionProvider.getUserTransaction(JtaTransactionProvider.java:115)

        ... 69 more

Then, I found overthere, that I have to configure the transaction extension in my arquillian.xml to work with JBoss container:

After that, JBoss managed mode started working perfectly!

But now, TomEE is failing:

Caused by: javax.naming.NoInitialContextException: Need to specify class name in environment or system property, or as an applet parameter, or in an application resource file:  java.naming.factory.initial

        at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:662)

        at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:307)

        at javax.naming.InitialContext.getURLOrDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:344)

        at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:411)

        at org.apache.openejb.arquillian.transaction.OpenEJBTransactionProvider.lookup(OpenEJBTransactionProvider.java:60)

        at org.apache.openejb.arquillian.transaction.OpenEJBTransactionProvider.beginTransaction(OpenEJBTransactionProvider.java:32)

        ... 64 more

testFindByEmail(com.collabnet.ctf.ejb.JPAUserRepositoryTest)  Time elapsed: 0.007 sec  <<< ERROR!

java.lang.NullPointerException

        at org.jboss.arquillian.transaction.impl.lifecycle.TransactionHandler.testRequiresRollbackDueToFailure(TransactionHandler.java:150)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.transaction.impl.lifecycle.TransactionHandler.rollbackRequired(TransactionHandler.java:140)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.transaction.impl.lifecycle.TransactionHandler.endTransactionAfterTest(TransactionHandler.java:108)

        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor50.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:94)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:99)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.core.impl.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:81)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.impl.client.ContainerEventController.createContext(ContainerEventController.java:142)

        at org.jboss.arquillian.container.test.impl.client.ContainerEventController.createAfterContext(ContainerEventController.java:134)

        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor48.invoke(Unknown Source)

        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)

Then, I tried by configuring arquillian.xml as follows:

Obviously, JBoss is failing again, but TomEE is working, so, my last try was to configure the extension thru a system property:

JBoss profile in pom.xml:

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And TomEE profile in pom.xml:

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That does't work, JBoss is working, but TomEE is still failing in the same way...

First of all, I don't understand WHY TomEE is starting to fail with "javax.naming.NoInitialContextException" when I add <extension qualifier="transaction"> configuration in my arquillian.xml

By other hand, it has no sense to work correctly in TomEE with empty <property name="manager"></property> and fail with <property name="manager">${unexistant.property}</property>

It seems to be something tricky, or buggy...

I attach pom.xml, arquillian.xml and one of my tests.

Either if you see something missing in my configuration or it is a bug, please let me know how could I make both containers run my tests with Container Managed Transactions (using @Transactional or something)

Obviously, if it is a bug, I'll be filing it.

Best regards,

Matías.