Thanks for responding. I tried on my jboss6 Final on my local machine but instead of binding to 0.0.0.0, I bind the jboss server to the specific IP address. Also I removed the jndi.properties as you suggested. Now I got the following error ( I ran the test inside eclipse) from the junit console:
org.jboss.arquillian.spi.client.container.LifecycleException: Could not connect to container
at org.jboss.arquillian.container.jbossas.remote_6.JBossASRemoteContainer.start(JBossASRemoteContainer.java:83)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$5.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:145)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$5.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:135)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.forContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:183)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.startContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:134)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:98)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:80)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.createContainerContext(ContainerDeploymentContextHandler.java:78)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:87)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:126)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:106)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$2.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:83)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController$2.perform(ContainerLifecycleController.java:76)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.forEachContainer(ContainerLifecycleController.java:176)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.container.ContainerLifecycleController.startContainers(ContainerLifecycleController.java:75)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:98)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:80)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:126)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:106)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventImpl.fire(EventImpl.java:67)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.client.ContainerEventController.execute(ContainerEventController.java:55)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventContextImpl.invokeObservers(EventContextImpl.java:98)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:80)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.TestContextHandler.createSuiteContext(TestContextHandler.java:54)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ObserverImpl.invoke(ObserverImpl.java:90)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.EventContextImpl.proceed(EventContextImpl.java:87)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:126)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.core.ManagerImpl.fire(ManagerImpl.java:106)
at org.jboss.arquillian.impl.EventTestRunnerAdaptor.beforeSuite(EventTestRunnerAdaptor.java:58)
at org.jboss.arquillian.junit.Arquillian.<init>(Arquillian.java:86)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:31)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:24)
at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57)
at org.junit.internal.builders.AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.runnerForClass(AllDefaultPossibilitiesBuilder.java:29)
at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:57)
at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:24)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.<init>(JUnit4TestReference.java:32)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestClassReference.<init>(JUnit4TestClassReference.java:25)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.createTest(JUnit4TestLoader.java:41)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.loadTests(JUnit4TestLoader.java:31)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:452)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException [Root exception is java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: localhost; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect]
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:841)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:688)
at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.arquillian.container.jbossas.remote_6.JBossASRemoteContainer.initDeploymentManager(JBossASRemoteContainer.java:197)
at org.jboss.arquillian.container.jbossas.remote_6.JBossASRemoteContainer.start(JBossASRemoteContainer.java:79)
... 72 more
Caused by: java.rmi.ConnectException: Connection refused to host: localhost; nested exception is:
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jnp.server.NamingServer_Stub.lookup(Unknown Source)
at org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:728)
... 76 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.net.Socket.<init>(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIDirectSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown Source)
at sun.rmi.transport.proxy.RMIMasterSocketFactory.createSocket(Unknown Source)
... 82 more