diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index bdc12b425..dfe4741a7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@
           <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>${maven-surefire.version}</version>
           <configuration>
-            <argLine>@{jacocoArgLine}</argLine>
             <includes>
               <include>**/*Test.java</include>
             </includes>
@@ -222,7 +221,7 @@
             <threadCount>1</threadCount>
             <forkCount>${surefire.forkcount}</forkCount>
             <!-- workaround for buggy cxf implementation on top of the "new" java async http client -->
-            <argLine>-Dorg.apache.cxf.transport.http.forceURLConnection=true</argLine>
+            <argLine>@{jacocoArgLine} -Dorg.apache.cxf.transport.http.forceURLConnection=true</argLine>
           </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>