spring+hibernate+hessian Lists problem (again?)

[bill-sos]

I'm sure that many other people must experience the problem of not being able to return lists of objects created by getHibernateTemplate() to a remote client via Hessian - they end up as an ArrayList of Hashmaps. I have seen a few solutions on the web but do not seem to be able to get any of them to work for me. I am not running Spring or Hibernate on the client just Hessian.

Can anyone tell me what the current "standard" solution to this problem is? Or should it all work out-of-the-box and I'm just doing it wrong?

I am using Spring 1.1.15 and the Hessian and Hibernate jars that come with it.

[cwilkes]

lists of objects created by getHibernateTemplate() to a remote client via Hessian - they end up as an ArrayList of Hashmaps.

That's a weird one. Does the hashmap look like the column name and values of each row?

Can you force your List into an Object[] array and then transmit that via hessian?

[bill-sos]

Since I posted I have changed to return an Object[]...

public Object[] findCatalogues() throws DataAccessException {
return getHibernateTemplate().find("from Catalogue catalogue").toArray();
}
... but I still have the same problem/result. The HashMap has an entry for each column in the table, the key is the column name and the value is the value of the column/row. One entry in the Object[] for each row.

For the time being, I am just creating the required object from the parts but I cannot believe there isnt a better way.

[cwilkes]

Do you have any lazy relationships in that object? Perhaps they aren't being loaded up.

By "return an Object[]" I mean more of a "return a Foo[]" where Foo is your object, so that you're forcing your getHibernate() results into an array of the same type as what you expected to get back from the query.