ISPN-2133 is related too, but actually all 3 these issues (counting the 2 I mentioned above) are all just needing to have the CacheManager injected by the container - so to reuse FORK channels - but using the application's classpath.
Essentially, what I was proposing to you and Tristan Tarrant in the cafetaria on the last meeting day.

I'll send an mail to infinispan-dev ..