FYI I came across a maven plugin bug... http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-104 I have half remedied my problems with the following code and setting the java protocol system property... | org.jboss.net.protocol.URLStreamHandlerFactory factory = new org.jboss.net.protocol.URLStreamHandlerFactory(); | URL.setURLStreamHandlerFactory(factory); | Bootstrap.getInstance().bootstrap(); | [/url] View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4020715#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...