I'm trying to make the TemperatureConverterTest running as an EAR on my WAS but I always get a ClassNotFoundException for the test class on the server side (test class is not missing in the jar). Relevant snippet from the test class:

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@Inject
private TemperatureConverter converter;

@Deployment
public static EnterpriseArchive createTestArchive()

{ return ShrinkWrap.create(EnterpriseArchive.class, "testConverter.ear") .addAsModule( ShrinkWrap.create(JavaArchive.class, "test.jar"). addClass(TemperatureConverterTest.class). addClass(TemperatureConverter.class)); }

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ServletTestRunner fails on loading the class:

Class<?> testClass = SecurityActions.getThreadContextClassLoader().loadClass(className);

Looking into the deployed ear I cannot see any reason for this behavior. The strange is that after adding a @EJB (and the relevant ejb classes) to my test the classloader is able to resolve the test class:

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@EJB
private MyEjbLocal instanceVariable;
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