THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
The use of an inner-class annotated as an EJB can get you all the resources you may need to run your test case such as a UserTransaction, EntityManager, JMS Topic or Queue, DataSource, references to other EJBs, etc.
Simply add a META-INF/ejb-jar.xml to your test sources and start annotating your inner class as needed.
The test logic can be placed inside the inner-class EJB or you can setup the EJB to pass the required resources to the outer class.
import junit.framework.TestCase; import javax.ejb.Stateless; import javax.ejb.TransactionManagement; import static javax.ejb.TransactionManagementType.BEAN; import javax.annotation.Resource; import javax.transaction.UserTransaction; import javax.persistence.PersistenceContext; import javax.persistence.PersistenceContextType; import javax.persistence.EntityManager; import javax.naming.Context; import javax.naming.InitialContext; import java.util.Properties; public class MyTest extends TestCase { private EntityManager entityManager; private UserTransaction userTransaction; @Override protected void setUp() throws Exception { Properties p = new Properties(); p.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "org.apache.openejb.client.LocalInitialContextFactory"); // set any other properties InitialContext initialContext = new InitialContext(p); TestLocal testLocal = (TestLocal) initialContext.lookup("TestBeanLocal"); entityManager = testLocal.getEntityManager(); userTransaction = testLocal.getUserTransaction(); } /** * The src/test/resource/META-INF/ejb-jar.xml will cause this * EJB to be automatically discovered and deployed when * OpenEJB boots up. */ @Stateless @TransactionManagement(BEAN) public static class TestBean implements TestLocal { @Resource private UserTransaction userTransaction; @PersistenceContext(type = PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED) private EntityManager entityManager; public UserTransaction getUserTransaction() { return userTransaction; } public EntityManager getEntityManager() { return entityManager; } } public static interface TestLocal { EntityManager getEntityManager(); UserTransaction getUserTransaction(); } }