ClassCastException for RMI-IIOP client hitting CORBA server

Question

I am writing a RMI-IIOP client to connect to an existing CORBA C++ server. I started out with writing a RMI Interface mimicking the IDL and then converting into a stub using rmic -iiop option. I then use COSNaming to connect to the server. When I narrow the reference using PortableRemoteObject.narrow(), I get a ClassCastException. Probably because the object that I get from naming service will be a CORBA object which cannot be casted to RMI Interface object.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException
at com.sun.corba.se.impl.javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:229)
at javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:137)
at com.att.cswd.poc.RMIIIOPClient.IMSConnect(RMIIIOPClient.java:46)
at com.att.cswd.poc.RMIIIOPClient.main(RMIIIOPClient.java:27)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: Object is not of remote type com.att.cswd.poc.CORBAInterface
at com.sun.corba.se.impl.javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow(PortableRemoteObject.java:221)
... 3 more
Code
                                CORBAInterface ims;
          String tranCode="CRTUN130";
          byte[][] input_segs = null;
           try {
                Hashtable hm = new Hashtable();
                hm.put("java.naming.factory.initial", "com.sun.jndi.cosnaming.CNCtxFactory");
                hm.put("java.naming.provider.url", "corbaloc:iiop:BSYS.MVS.SC.COM:14050/NameService");
                Context initialNamingContext = new InitialContext(hm);
               Object objref = initialNamingContext.lookup("O2K/AdapterInterface");
               ims = (CORBAInterface) PortableRemoteObject.narrow(objref, CORBAInterface.class);
               byte output_segs[][] = ims.run_transaction_binary(tranCode, input_segs);               
               System.out.println ("Response is " + output_segs);
          } catch (NamingException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          } catch (RemoteException e) {
               e.printStackTrace();
          }

Answer 1

I am writing a RMI-IIOP client to connect to an existing CORBA C++ serverAs it says in [the Javadoc|http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/rmi-iiop/rmiiiopUsing.html#when], you can't do that. For RMI/IIOP you have to start with a PortableRemoteObject and rmic -iiop. You can use a C++ client to that but you can't use an RMI/IIOP client to a C++ server.
Use IDLJ.