David,

No answers for you at this point, but I think the first thing I'd do is verify which thread context classloader is set in the case that's working. Perhaps the problem is not in setting the thread context loader, but rather getting it set to the correct one. Are the calls to C occurring in the same place in the FarmBean code? If not, are there any fundamental differences between the call environments?

Rick

David Jencks wrote:
I've run into a RMI classloading problem that I don't know how to solve and I'm hoping someone has a suggestion about how to proceed.

In this scenario there are 3 jvms:

A.   gshell
B. a controller server
C. a cluster node.

In B, there are 2 classloaders of interest: j2ee-security and plugin-farm. The class I'm having trouble with is DownloadResults, which is available in plugin-farm but not j2ee-security.

On B, there's a gbean, FarmGBean, in plugin-farm that calls the PluginInstallerGBean on C and gets a DownloadResults back. This call is over jmx using rmi.

This call is made under two circumstances:

1. FarmGBean on B recieves a multicast packet from C and calls back to C, and successfully gets the DownloadResults back. I'm assuming that rmi is using the plugin-farm classloader here for the ObjectInputStream but haven't figure out how to check.

2. Gshell on A can call over jmx/rmi to the FarmGBean on B resulting in a call to C. In this case DownloadResults cannot be loaded: I get a message saying its not available in the j2ee-security classloader. (stack trace at end of email).

I think that in (1) the thread that dispatches the call to C was started in code loaded in the plugin-farm classloader whereas in (2) the thread was started in the j2ee-server classloader. I'm not certain of this however.

I've tried two things that haven't worked:
a. setting the thread context classloader before the call to C to the plugin-farm classloader
b. making the call to C a PrivilegedExceptionAction

An idea I've had that I haven't tried yet because it seems rather complicated and seems like it might introduce security holes (at least it needs more thought) would be to modify the RMIClassLoaderSpiImpl. My idea is to represent geronimo classloaders with urls containing their artifactIds. The server would include this more or less fake url in the codebase for a class and the client would look for this special url to try to load the class with.

Anyone know what osgi does for similar situations? Anyone have any suggestions?

many thanks
david jencks

Here's the stack trace (on B):

12:22:05,777 WARN [FarmGBean] Error attempting to distribute plugin [EMAIL PROTECTED] to node 0.0.0.0:1109 java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling return; nested exception is: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.geronimo.system.plugin.DownloadResults in classloader org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-security/2.2-SNAPSHOT/car (no security manager: RMI class loader disabled)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:162)
    at com.sun.jmx.remote.internal.PRef.invoke(Unknown Source)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl_Stub.invoke(Unknown Source) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnector$RemoteMBeanServerConnection.invoke(RMIConnector.java:972) at org.apache.geronimo.system.jmx.KernelDelegate.invokeKernel(KernelDelegate.java:886) at org.apache.geronimo.system.jmx.KernelDelegate.invoke(KernelDelegate.java:547) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.KernelOperationInvoker.invoke(KernelOperationInvoker.java:46) at org.apache.geronimo.system.jmx.JMXProxyMethodInterceptor.intercept(JMXProxyMethodInterceptor.java:89) at org.apache.geronimo.system.plugin.PluginInstaller$$EnhancerByCGLIB$$80823d3e.install(<generated>) at org.apache.geronimo.farm.plugin.FarmGBean.installToNode(FarmGBean.java:223) at org.apache.geronimo.farm.plugin.FarmGBean.installToCluster(FarmGBean.java:207) at org.apache.geronimo.farm.plugin.FarmGBean.installToClusters(FarmGBean.java:199) at org.apache.geronimo.farm.plugin.FarmGBean.addPluginToCluster(FarmGBean.java:193) at org.apache.geronimo.farm.plugin.FarmGBean.addPluginToCluster(FarmGBean.java:181)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java:34) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:130) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:850) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:237) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.KernelGBean.invoke(KernelGBean.java:342)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.ReflectionMethodInvoker.invoke(ReflectionMethodInvoker.java:34) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanOperation.invoke(GBeanOperation.java:130) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.invoke(GBeanInstance.java:850) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.invoke(BasicKernel.java:237) at org.apache.geronimo.system.jmx.MBeanGBeanBridge.invoke(MBeanGBeanBridge.java:172) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.DynamicMetaDataImpl.invoke(DynamicMetaDataImpl.java:213)
    at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MetaDataImpl.invoke(MetaDataImpl.java:220)
at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:815) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:784) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1410) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.access$100(RMIConnectionImpl.java:81) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$PrivilegedOperation.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1247)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1350) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:784)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor57.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:294)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:153)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:149)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:466) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:707)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.geronimo.system.plugin.DownloadResults in classloader org.apache.geronimo.framework/j2ee-security/2.2-SNAPSHOT/car (no security manager: RMI class loader disabled)
    at sun.rmi.server.LoaderHandler.loadClass(LoaderHandler.java:371)
    at sun.rmi.server.LoaderHandler.loadClass(LoaderHandler.java:165)
at java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoader$2.loadClass(RMIClassLoader.java:620) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.rmi.RMIClassLoaderSpiImpl.loadClass(RMIClassLoaderSpiImpl.java:53)
    at java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoader.loadClass(RMIClassLoader.java:247)
at sun.rmi.server.MarshalInputStream.resolveClass(MarshalInputStream.java:197) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1544) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1466) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1699)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1305)
    at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:348)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.unmarshalValue(UnicastRef.java:290)
    at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:139)
    ... 51 more

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