Change RMI serviceName/serviceURL at runtime?

[muzzamo]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a way to change the serviceName for a RmiServiceExporter at run-time, ie for

<bean id = "serviceExporter" class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter">
	<!-- the serviceName is dynamically reconfigured at runtime -->
	<property name="serviceName" value="CommunicationService"/>
	<property name="service" ref="communicationService"/>
	<property name="serviceInterface" value="foo.bar.CommunicationService"/>
	<!-- defaults to 1099 -->
	<property name="registryPort" value="1099"/>

I dont want to instantiate the serviceExporter bean until I have configured a different value for the serviceName.

I found this thread, which suggested (for HttpInvoker) that i prepend the bean name with an "&". What is this doing exactly? Will this work for RMI and is there a better way that anyone can suggest?

Thanks in advance.

[Mark Fisher]

The & is a dereferencer for the FactoryBean. That means that rather than retrieving the result of the FactoryBean's getObject() method, you would get the FactoryBean itself.