ClassCastException ; javax.rmi. Portable Remote Object. narrow(Unknown Source)

[Shivakanth Thyagarajan]

Dear Ranchers,
I am trying to run AdviceClient and i am getting the below exception.

java.lang.ClassCastException
at com.sun.corba.se.internal.javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(Unknown Source)
at javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(Unknown Source)
at AdviceClient.go(AdviceClient.java:24)
at AdviceClient.main(AdviceClient.java:11)

I have done all possible things. I have j2ee.jar in the classpath and the client jar also in the classpath. I tried to find it in the google but with little vain. I am using j2ee 1.4 server and Operating system is Windows XP.

Please help me out. I have lost my patience.

Thanks
Shivakanth.T

[Marcelo Ortega]

Hi Shivakanth
Make sure that the class type which you pass as an argument to the narrow method is of the same type as the home interface and that the cast is being made to that same home type. Also, make sure that the
home is not local.

Regards,
Mars.

[Shivakanth Thyagarajan]

I could solve this we need to add one more jar file in the CLASSPATH and it works.

<install-dir>\lib\appserv-rt.jar

Hope this would be helpful for someone in future.

Thanks
Shivakanth.T

[Conor Williams]

probably a bit late but,
i got it by running it like this: (pointing to the jar created by RI)
C:\ejb\headfirst>c:\j2sdk1.4.2_15\bin\java -classpath adviceappClient.jar;%CLASS
PATH% AdviceClient

happy Christmas!