/** Creates and starts the server instance */ private int createServer() { CacheServer server = null; try { Properties p = new Properties(); // make it a loner p.put("mcast-port", "0"); p.put("locators", ""); this.system = DistributedSystem.connect(p); this.cache = CacheFactory.create(system); server = this.cache.addCacheServer(); int port = AvailablePort.getRandomAvailablePort(AvailablePort.SOCKET); server.setMaximumTimeBetweenPings(TIME_BETWEEN_PINGS); server.setMaxThreads(getMaxThreads()); server.setPort(port); server.start(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); fail("Failed to create server"); } return server.getPort(); }