If an application use the javax.cache JCache API together with the infinispan-jcache-remote library the CacheManager is created with defaults.
But it is expected that the hotrod-client.properties are used to configure the remote connection.

The code is like this:
{
import javax.cache.*;
...
CachingProvider jcacheProvider = Caching.getCachingProvider();
CacheManager cacheManager = jcacheProvider.getCacheManager();
}

The org.infinispan.jcache.AbstractJCachingProvider use the org.infinispan.jcache.remote.CacheManger but does not provide properties.

Therefor the CacheManager is constructed with the default of localhost:11222 as the configuration is not loaded from the properties file.