diff --git a/org.jacoco.agent.rt/src/org/jacoco/agent/rt/internal/Offline.java b/org.jacoco.agent.rt/src/org/jacoco/agent/rt/internal/Offline.java
index 9d582df64e..ecf936e562 100644
--- a/org.jacoco.agent.rt/src/org/jacoco/agent/rt/internal/Offline.java
+++ b/org.jacoco.agent.rt/src/org/jacoco/agent/rt/internal/Offline.java
@@ -22,23 +22,27 @@
  */
 public final class Offline {
 
-	private static final RuntimeData DATA;
 	private static final String CONFIG_RESOURCE = "/jacoco-agent.properties";
 
-	static {
-		final Properties config = ConfigLoader.load(CONFIG_RESOURCE,
-				System.getProperties());
-		try {
-			DATA = Agent.getInstance(new AgentOptions(config)).getData();
-		} catch (final Exception e) {
-			throw new RuntimeException("Failed to initialize JaCoCo.", e);
-		}
-	}
-
 	private Offline() {
 		// no instances
 	}
 
+	private static RuntimeData data;
+
+	private static synchronized RuntimeData getRuntimeData() {
+		if (data == null) {
+			final Properties config = ConfigLoader.load(CONFIG_RESOURCE,
+					System.getProperties());
+			try {
+				data = Agent.getInstance(new AgentOptions(config)).getData();
+			} catch (final Exception e) {
+				throw new RuntimeException("Failed to initialize JaCoCo.", e);
+			}
+		}
+		return data;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * API for offline instrumented classes.
 	 * 
@@ -52,7 +56,7 @@ private Offline() {
 	 */
 	public static boolean[] getProbes(final long classid,
 			final String classname, final int probecount) {
-		return DATA
+		return getRuntimeData()
 				.getExecutionData(Long.valueOf(classid), classname, probecount)
 				.getProbes();
 	}
diff --git a/org.jacoco.ant.test/src/org/jacoco/ant/InstrumentTaskTest.xml b/org.jacoco.ant.test/src/org/jacoco/ant/InstrumentTaskTest.xml
index 65625c8471..0da651109b 100644
--- a/org.jacoco.ant.test/src/org/jacoco/ant/InstrumentTaskTest.xml
+++ b/org.jacoco.ant.test/src/org/jacoco/ant/InstrumentTaskTest.xml
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@
 				<pathelement path="${temp.dir}"/>
 			</classpath>
 		</java>
-		<au:assertLogContains text="Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize JaCoCo."/>
-		<au:assertLogContains text="Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: &quot;foo&quot;"/>
+		<au:assertLogContains text="java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to initialize JaCoCo."/>
+		<au:assertLogContains text="java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: &quot;foo&quot;"/>
 	</target>
 	
 </project>