You need to start a HotRodServer like this

  ConfigurationBuilder embeddedBuilder = new ConfigurationBuilder();

  DefaultCacheManager defaultCacheManager = new DefaultCacheManager(embeddedBuilder.build());

  HotRodServerConfiguration build = new HotRodServerConfigurationBuilder().host(host).port(port).name("XX").build();

  HotRodServer server = new HotRodServer();

  server.start(build, defaultCacheManager);

  ... do soemthing

  server.stop();

  defaultCacheManager.stop();

You might also want to look at tristantarrant/infinispan-playground-embedded-hotrod · GitHub which shows how to enable compatibility mode.