The remote sampling mode is currently stored in static final field in SampleSenderFactory, so cannot be changed once the class has been loaded. There's no particular reason why this is necessary; the values could be determined at run time.
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1214774&view=rev Log: Bug 52340 - Allow remote sampling mode to be changed at run-time Modified: jmeter/trunk/src/core/org/apache/jmeter/samplers/SampleSenderFactory.java jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
This issue has been migrated to GitHub: https://github.com/apache/jmeter/issues/2682