RmiProxyFactoryBean and SSL

[kneumei]

It appears that something is missing from the RmiProxyFactoryBean.

On the RmiServiceExporter I can set these properties:

serverSocketFactory
clientSocketFactory
registryServerSocketFactory
registryClientSocketFactory.

However, on the RmiProxyFactoryBean, I only have the option to set the registryClientSocketFactory. I would expect to see a clientSocketFactory property as well. Otherwise, How can I handle an SSL encryption with the rmi stubs?

Looks like this question has been posted several other times on this forum. Just wondering if anyone has a solution?

[kneumei]

So I figured out the problem. Even though the two objects seem like they should be symmetrical, they are not because I think the RmiServiceExporter transmits the clientSocketFactory over the wire to the RmiProxyFactoryBean, which loads it.

My main problem lay in the fact that I needed to tell the SslRmiServerSocketFactory which ciphers to use

	<bean id="SSLserverSocketFactory" class="javax.rmi.ssl.SslRMIServerSocketFactory">
		<constructor-arg index="0" value="SSL_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5">
		</constructor-arg>
		<constructor-arg index="1">
			<null />
		</constructor-arg>
		<constructor-arg index="2" value="false" />
	</bean>

Then I had to set this java property in the jvm that was running the client:

javax.rmi.ssl.client.enabledCipherSuites=SSL_DH_anon_WITH_RC4_128_MD5

I know that I'm using a non-authenticating cipher, but for my needs that is ok.