Thanks everyone for your time and the comments. "ALRubinger" wrote : * Constants like SERVER_STARTING should be marked "final"? Agreed. That was my silly mistake. "ALRubinger" wrote : | * MockServerMonitor has hardcoded "localhost" used by the ServerSocket. If we've gotta specify a port, might as well specify a host bind address (to bind to 2 unique hosts using same port for example) | Sure, will change it to allow the host bind address to be a parameter. I'll consider the rest of the comments too: - Not good OO pratice - Chances of the test case waiting indefinitely - The static instance of MockServer in itself. Thanks again, for the inputs :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4187213#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...