[JBoss-user] Moving objects

[Scott J. Keane]

Hello,       I was hoping for help on an application I am trying to design.  I'd like to know if there is something that I can use that will actually pass a data structure from one system to another.  For example, if I want the file listing of a directory on a remote machine, I may implement a tree to represent this listing and then pass the tree to the client for it to do its work on.  I've tried doing this through an EJB, but it tells me that the return type is not of type RMI-IIOP, although it is serializable, implements Remote and extends PortableRemoteObject.  I don't think a servlet is privy to local information, it is just for handling client requests.  Any ideas?  Thanks for your help.   Scott