rmi and ssl - client socket factory NoClassDefFound Exception

[ryan]

Hello,

...still working on getting RMI and SSL completely sorted:
in ofbiz-containers.xml I have:

   <container name="rmi-dispatcher" 
class="org.ofbiz.service.rmi.RmiServiceContainer">
       <property name="bound-name" value="RMIDispatcher"/>
       <property name="bound-host" value="127.0.0.1"/>
       <property name="bound-port" value="1099"/>
       <property name="delegator-name" value="default"/>
       <property name="client-factory" 
value="org.ofbiz.service.rmi.socket.ssl.SSLClientSocketFactory"/>
       <property name="server-factory" 
value="org.ofbiz.service.rmi.socket.ssl.SSLServerSocketFactory"/>
       <property name="ssl-keystore" value=".keystore"/><!-- this is 
installed in the ${OFBIZ_HOME} dir-->
       <property name="ssl-keystore-type" value="JKS"/>
       <property name="ssl-keystore-pass" value="somegarbagepass"/>
       <property name="ssl-keystore-alias" value="ssl"/>
       <property name="ssl-client-auth" value="false"/>
   </container>

my client class is really simple (logging and extra exception handling 
left out)

public class RMIDispatcher {

 public String endpoint="rmi://somehost:1099/RMIDispatcher";
 public RemoteDispatcher remoteDispatcher = null;
 public Map rmiResult= null;
 public String[] loginParams = {};

 public RMIDispatcher() throws Exception {
   try {
     RemoteDispatcher remoteDispatcher = (RemoteDispatcher) 
Naming.lookup(endpoint);
   } catch (Exception e) {
     throw e;
   }
 }

 public Map dispatch(String method,String[] params) throws 
RemoteException, GenericServiceException {
   rmiResult = remoteDispatcher.runSync(method, UtilMisc.toMap(params));
   return rmiResult;
 }
}

when invoking the dispatch() method, I get the following:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
   at 
org.ofbiz.service.rmi.socket.ssl.SSLClientSocketFactory.createSocket(SSLClientSocketFactory.java:42)
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPEndpoint.newSocket(TCPEndpoint.java:569)
   at 
sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.createConnection(TCPChannel.java:185)
   at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPChannel.newConnection(TCPChannel.java:171)
   at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.newCall(UnicastRef.java:306)
   at sun.rmi.transport.DGCImpl_Stub.clean(Unknown Source)
   at 
sun.rmi.transport.DGCClient$EndpointEntry.makeCleanCalls(DGCClient.java:630)
   at 
sun.rmi.transport.DGCClient$EndpointEntry.access$1700(DGCClient.java:144)
   at 
sun.rmi.transport.DGCClient$EndpointEntry$RenewCleanThread.run(DGCClient.java:544)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613)

which I think means that 
org.ofbiz.base.util.SSLUtil.getSSLSocketFactory() is returning null.


So the question, why would that be? (argh - unfortunately, I haven't 
been able to get the client-side debugger attached to the sources for 
SSLUtil() hopefully its not obvious once I do that).

regards,
-Ryan