Unable to use an existing rmiregistry

[pieter_degraeuwe]

When I don't start an rmiregistry manually, spring starts it for me and everyting works fine.
If I start it manually, I get the following exception:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'clientExporter' defined in null: Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is: 
	java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling arguments; nested exception is: 
	java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiInvocationWrapper_Stub
java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is: 
	java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling arguments; nested exception is: 
	java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiInvocationWrapper_Stub
	at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteCall.java:247)
	at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:223)
	at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:350)
	at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.rebind(Unknown Source)
	at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter.afterPropertiesSet(RmiServiceExporter.java:169)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1037)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:305)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:223)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:236)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:159)
	at davinci.jedi.kernel.JediModule.start(JediModule.java:107)
	at davinci.jedi.kernel.JediModule.main(JediModule.java:173)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
	at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:78)
Caused by: java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling arguments; nested exception is: 
	java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiInvocationWrapper_Stub
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiInvocationWrapper_Stub

Is it even possible to use an rmiregistry that is not started by spring?
I use port 1199

[jmdilley]

I am also experiencing the same characteristics. Did you ever resolve the issue so that Spring will work with a registry that it does not start?

[pieter_degraeuwe]

Nope, I couldn't solve this (and I didn't have the time to search for it )
My workaround:
I do start my rmi registry now with a little do-nothing-spring application, which starts the rmi registry for me. This simple application is running as a service, so it is started always before my other app's do...