RMIServiceExporter and Spaces in URLs = BOOM

[cardsharp]

Spring version 1.1.5
JDK 1.5.0_01

When using Tomcat 5.5 on Windows with the RMIServiceExporter, I get the following error:

java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: 5.5/webapps/report/WEB-INF/classes/

Tomcat is installed at "C:\dev\Tomcat 5.5" Notice that the space in the file path seems to be screwing up the RMI export. This goes along with the following thread I found:

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp...eadID= 372925

So, it seems that when your app server has a space in it, the Naming lookup is blowing up.

This seems like a bug. Anything I can do about it other than JIRA it?

[oliverhutchison]

It would help if you post the full stack trace.

[Juergen Hoeller]

Well, this doesn't seem to be a Spring issue but rather one of the JDK's RMI subsystem...

In general, avoid spaces in file paths at at any cost when you're dealing with Java applications - a common advice in Java land for years, actually! While spaces in paths might work sometimes, they can cause quite a lot of headache in various places.

Juergen