It is impossible to use tabs or newlines in arquillian.xml when defining properties for tomcat configuration. Only space (" ") can be used as delimiter.

For example, this configuration is OK:

<container qualifier="tomcat" default="true">
  <configuration>
    <property name="catalinaHome">/home/tomcat6</property>
    <property name="javaVmArguments">-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512</property>
  </configuration>
</container>

While this one causes failure on startup:

<container qualifier="tomcat" default="true">
  <configuration>
    <property name="catalinaHome">/home/tomcat6</property>
    <property name="javaVmArguments">
-Xmx1024m
-XX:MaxPermSize=512
    </property>
  </configuration>
</container>


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

arquillian-tomcat-managed-5.5, 6, 7; 1.0.0.CR3