james ahlborn

the reason you are confused is that you generally do not use the RemoteIteratorServer class directly. if, for instance, you had serializable objects, you would use the SerialRemoteIteratorServer with an iterator which returns some serializable objects. see the example iterator TestClient (possibly somewhat confusingly named).

that should work. what are you setting to port to? and, how are you verifying whether or not it is working.

as for using the default exporter, as long as you aren't setting any other rmiio system properties, you are using the default exporter.