A number of the network and JDWP tests use a distributed framework for testing the network API and Java Debugger Wire Protocol. Distributed tests validate network API or JDWP functionality while the test platform is connected to a remote host.

One part of the distributed test runs as usual on the platform under test and the other part of the test runs on a remote host using a passive agent. The following questions ask for information required to contact the remote host and to run part of the tests there.