How to run a standalone Hazelcast server for testing distributed cache. * First you need to run a standalone Hazelcast server with JCache API in the classpath. This will start Hazelcast with the default configuration. java -cp third_party/hazelcast/hazelcast-3.5.4.jar \ com.hazelcast.core.server.StartServer * Then you run Bazel pointing to the Hazelcast server. bazel build --hazelcast_node=127.0.0.1:5701 --spawn_strategy=remote \ src/tools/generate_workspace:all Above command will build generate_workspace with remote spawn strategy that uses Hazelcast as the distributed caching backend.