Managed Tomcat instance times out on JMX connection

Write Test with Test.java @RunWith(Arquillian.class) @Deployment(testable= false ) public static WebArchive createTestArchive() throws Exception { return ShrinkWrap.getDefaultDomain().getArchiveFactory().create(WebArchive.class, "test.war" ).as(ZipImporter.class).importFrom( new ZipFile( new File( "target/dependency/test.war" ))).as(WebArchive.class).addAsManifestResource( new ByteArrayAsset( new byte [0]), ArchivePaths.create( "beans.xml" )); } Place Tomcat instance somewhere and specify catalinaHome in arquillian.xml Run test with Maven

add -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=localhost to javaVmArguments <?xml version= "1.0" encoding= "UTF-8" ?> <arquillian xmlns:xsi = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian http://jboss.org/schema/arquillian/arquillian-1.0.xsd"> <container qualifier= "tomcat6-managed" default= "true" > <configuration> <property name= "catalinaHome" > ${project.build.directory}/server/tomcat </property> <property name= "bindHttpPort" > ${itest.tomcat.port} </property> <property name= "user" > ${tomcat.manager.username} </property> <property name= "pass" > ${tomcat.manager.password} </property> <property name= "jmxPort" > 9089 </property> <property name= "javaVmArguments" > -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=localhost </property> </configuration> </container> </arquillian>