@UsingDataSet annotations stopped working after migration

We recently started porting our projects from Java 6 to Java 8. This led to a cascade of upgrades that included moving from glassfish 3.1.2.2

to glassfish 4.1

, JEE6

to JEE7

, etc.

However, after the process, our tests done with arquillian, the ones that require inserting data into the database, stopped working. More specifically, tests such as:

@Test
@UsingDataSet("table.json")
public void getLastEntryTest() throws NoResultFoundException {
    assertCorrectness(tableDAO.getLastEntry());
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

During execution, throw

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jboss.arquillian.transaction.impl.lifecycle.TransactionHandler.testRequiresRollbackDueToFailure(TransactionHandler.java:170)

      

        
        
        
      

    

The relevant dependencies we are using are:

<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian</groupId>
<artifactId>arquillian-bom</artifactId>
<version>1.1.8.Final</version>

<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.container</groupId>
<artifactId>arquillian-glassfish-remote-3.1</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.CR4</version>

<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.extension</groupId>
<artifactId>arquillian-persistence-dbunit</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.Alpha7</version>

<groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.junit</groupId>
<artifactId>arquillian-junit-container</artifactId>
<version>1.1.8.Final</version>

<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>

      

        
        
        
      

    

Example table.json:

{ "schema.table": 
    [
     {
        "date": "2005-09-19 00:00:00",
        "foo": "value"
     }
    ]
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

The database connection (to the Oracle database) is working correctly - if we do it manually by executing the query inside the test body, everything will be as expected.

How do we make it work?