Giving more memory to Maven using MAVEN_OPTS shouldn't help you with tests which Surefire launches (in another process/VM). For that there's the Surefire config in build/pom.xml; see if bumping the Xmx there locally works for you. So far as the "port in use" issue, I recommend using Sysinternals' PortMon (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896644.aspx) to see what process is holding the port (my guess is something external to AS). S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4266900#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...