RE: Error handling in RMI server code

[Jeroen Frijters]

Hi,

Thanks. I've applied your fix.

Regards,
Jeroen 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden On 
> Behalf Of Ilya Perminov
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 20:46
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Error handling in RMI server code
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The RMI server code does not propagate Errors to RMI clients.
> I found why. There are two bugs:
> 1. UnicastServerRef.incomingMessageCall casts 
>    InvocationTargetException.getTargetException () to Exception. 
>    It fails when getTargetException () returns an Error.
> 2. UnicastServer.incomingMessageCall does not have a handler 
> for Errors.
>    According to RMI spec. Errors in a remote method should be caught,
>    wrapped in ServerError and send to the client.
> I fixed these bugs. A patch is attached. Can somebody apply it?
> Also, please close my bug report
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=10315
> 
> Regards, 
> Ilya
>