The arguments to the remote metho dmust be serializable at runtime. The HttpRequest of Catalina's isn't so you wont be able to do that. What you want to do is extract the values you need out of the request, and pass them to the process method so that the process method is pure business logic and doesn't care where the request comes from
cheers dim On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Andrew Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to call an EJB method from a servlet. The EJB methods work > fine when I use a standalone test app, but die when I make the same > calls from a servlet, throwing: > > java.io.NotSerializableException: > org.apache.catalina.connector.HttpRequestFacade > <stack trace snipped> > > The servlet can create the EJB instance OK, it's not a lookup problem. > The exception is thrown when I call a custom method in the servlet (it > doesn't do anything, it's just a test stub). The remote interface method > looks like: > > public void process(HttpServletRequest reqest, HttpServletResponse > response) throws RemoteException, java.io.NotSerializableException; > > I'm currently using Tomcat 4 + JBoss 2.4.1 (seperately, not integrated), > but had the same problem with Tomcat 3. The only fields in the > Registration EJB are Strings - nothing fancy. I've stripped the bean > 'bare' to try and isolate the problem, without success. > > Despite much net searching I haven't seen any reports of similar > problems - surely I'm not the only one? I'm running on Mac OS X 10.1 > (Hotspot Java VM 1.3.1 for those who don't know). > > Any suggestions/thoughts gratefully received. > Regards, > Andrew Wright > >
