Sorry, I forgot that Remoting/Locator would have a cache for this socket. Client will be GCED byt the underlying socket will sit somewhere in a static HashMap inside remoting. (the Locator property will be used for that). A proper fix would be to have client created before, and always reuse the same client. But that would change internal API. I don't think we should do it now. I guess we should mark this as Won't fix. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3972422#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...