Using 4.2.0CR2.

I am using TestNG from within a Stateless Session Bean. The TestNG jar for jdk1.5 is in the ear/lib directory, and I can import the main TestNG class just fine, so I know it is actually on the classpath. TestNG uses reflection internally to load and instantiate some TestRunners, etc. I get:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: org.testng.internal.annotations.JDK15AnnotationFinder.<init>(org.testng.internal.annotations.IAnnotationTransformer)
 java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:2647)
 java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:1629)
 org.testng.internal.ClassHelper.createJdkAnnotationFinder(ClassHelper.java:175)
 org.testng.TestNG.initializeAnnotationFinders(TestNG.java:692)
 org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:701)

The relevant section of ClassHelper.java is:

 try {
 Class clazz= forName(JDK5_ANNOTATIONFINDER_CLASS);
 Constructor ctor= clazz.getConstructor(new Class[] {IAnnotationTransformer.class});//Exception here
 return (IAnnotationFinder) ctor.newInstance(new Object[] {annoTransformer});
 }
 catch(Exception ex) {
 throw new TestNGException("Cannot create/initialize the JDK5 annotation finder " + JDK5_ANNOTATIONFINDER_CLASS, ex);
 }

Please note that I added the comment showing which line throws the exception (line 175)

It works fine when called from the web context if the jar is in WEB-INF/lib, but that doesn't meet our needs.

According to http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-4037 the lib directory within an ear should work as defined in the EE5 spec - Does that not include reflection? (Or is this a bug?)

Thanks in advance for any help you can supply.