> the JGroups options are mandatory already, so you have to setup your IDE.

which is far from perfect. I would love to change that. Also, the JGroups settings are defined somewhere else. Now you are introducing yet another spot in the build which influences the test outcomes. 

> Also depending on how class definitions are initialized, you can't do it in test code as it might be too late.

How can it be to late to add this to the hibernate properties as any other property? It behaves like a "normal" config property, right?