RMI Problem, java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

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Hey,

has anyone an idea what this error msg means?

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'remoteInfoBeanRMI' defined in class path resource [a.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Service interface [beans.IRemoteInfoBean] needs to be implemented by service [remoteInfoBean] of class [java.lang.String]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Service interface [beans.IRemoteInfoBean] needs to be implemented by service [remoteInfoBean] of class [java.lang.String]
	at org.springframework.remoting.support.RemoteExporter.checkServiceInterface(RemoteExporter.java:132)
	at org.springframework.remoting.support.RemoteExporter.getProxyForService(RemoteExporter.java:152)
	at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiBasedExporter.getObjectToExport(RmiBasedExporter.java:61)
	at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter.prepare(RmiServiceExporter.java:252)
	at org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter.afterPropertiesSet(RmiServiceExporter.java:211)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1175)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1145)

I am using Spring 2.0.4.
This is on the server side with the following code:

beans.IRemoteInfoBean:

package beans;

public interface IRemoteInfoBean {
	
	public int getMwStSatz();

	public void setMwStSatz(int mwStSatz);

	public int getRemindingDays();

	public void setRemindingDays(int remindingDays);

	public String getVersion();

	public void setVersion(String version);

}

beans.RemoteInfoBean:

package beans;

public class RemoteInfoBean implements IRemoteInfoBean {
	
	private int remindingDays;
	
	private String version;
	
	private int mwStSatz;

	public int getMwStSatz() {
		return mwStSatz;
	}

	public void setMwStSatz(int mwStSatz) {
		this.mwStSatz = mwStSatz;
	}

	public int getRemindingDays() {
		return remindingDays;
	}

	public void setRemindingDays(int remindingDays) {
		this.remindingDays = remindingDays;
	}

	public String getVersion() {
		return version;
	}

	public void setVersion(String version) {
		this.version = version;
	}
}

and here is my spring xml file:

...
    <bean id="remoteInfoBean" class="beans.RemoteInfoBean">
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="activationDataDAO" class="dao.ActivationDataDAO">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="hibernateSessionFactory" />
    </bean>
   
    <bean id="remoteInfoBeanRMI" class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter">
        <property name="serviceName" value="RemoteInfoBean" />
        <property name="service" value="remoteInfoBean" />
        <property name="serviceInterface" value="beans.IRemoteInfoBean" />
    </bean>
...
hibernate stuff...

Thank you in advance!

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I've found the error:

Changing "value" to "ref" in the appContext.xml by the service attribute will do it.