Hi, I am trying to use a Tomcat webapp as a RMI client. For the test purposes, my RMI server resides on the same machine. When I use a Tomcat webapp as a client, I consistently get a ClassCastException, while if I use a plain java class for the client, it works flawlessly.
Following is my client code used in the servlet and the plain java class. System.setProperty("java.rmi.server.codebase", "file:/path/to/stubfile/"); try { //(line: 141) TestInterface testIf = (TestInterface)Naming.lookup("//localhost/Test"); result = testIf.testMethod(); } catch (Exception e) { servlet.log(e.getMessage()); e.printStackTrace(); } I am using: JDK-1.4 tomcat-4.1.12 >From the stack it looks like the stub file is located, but it cannot relate it with the interface file. It looks like the interface file and the stub files are loaded with different class loaders and cannot be associated. java.lang.ClassCastException: Test_Stub at com.vishal.eg.TestAction.perform(TestAction.java:141) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.processActionPerform(ActionServlet.java:1786) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1585) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:509) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilterChain.java:98) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain.java:176) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:172) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:260) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2396) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:172) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:405) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:380) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:508) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:533) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) Thanks in advance, Vishal __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>