Greeting,

I want to implement a simple client-server application with the following feature: client receives some remote object and call it's method. I don't have an intention to use EJBs so my question if this possible with pure Spring Remoting features like Hessian.

The remote object that is being passed is

Code:
import interfaces.IUser;

public class UserImpl implements IUser 
{

	public String getAge() {
		
		return " 27 y.o ";
	}

	public String getName() 
	{		
		return " John Doe ";
	}

	public String getSex() 
	{		
		return " M ";
	}

	public String getUserString() {
		
		return getName() + getAge() + getSex();
	}

}
The client side has only IUser in its classpath, not UserImpl. So when I call Hessian Service, I receive en error like this

Code:
java.lang.InstantiationException: interfaces.IUser
	at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)
	at com.caucho.hessian.io.JavaDeserializer.instantiate(JavaDeserializer.java:172)
	at com.caucho.hessian.io.JavaDeserializer.readMap(JavaDeserializer.java:112)
	at com.caucho.hessian.io.HessianInput.readObject(HessianInput.java:662)
	at com.caucho.hessian.io.HessianInput.readReply(HessianInput.java:241)
	at com.caucho.hessian.client.HessianProxy.invoke(HessianProxy.java:179)
	at $Proxy0.getUser(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.springframework.remoting.caucho.HessianClientInterceptor.invoke(HessianClientInterceptor.java:163)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:176)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:210)
	at $Proxy1.getUser(Unknown Source)
	at client.Client.callService(Client.java:39)
	at client.Client.main(Client.java:56)

I haven't looked at Hessian source code, but I could presume that it tries to instantiate UserImpl on the client side, where such class is absent in the classpath.


Can I configure Hessian somehow to send UserImpl class information with serialized UserImpl object?

Thanks in advance!