JDK6 And ClassNotFound Exception during RMI server start

Question

Hello,
I have been write a simple Hello World RMI, but I'm unable to start the server always get this exeception:
Server exception: java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:
     java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling arguments; nested exception is:
     java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: rmi.Hello
java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:
     java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling arguments; nested exception is:
     java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: rmi.Hello
     at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.oldDispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:396)
     at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:250)
     at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:159)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:155)
     at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:535)
     at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:790)
     at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:649)
     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)
     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
     at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteCall.java:255)
     at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:233)
     at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:359)
     at sun.rmi.registry.RegistryImpl_Stub.bind(Unknown Source)
     at rmi.HelloMain.main(HelloMain.java:21)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
     at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:90)The sources are these:
package rmi;
import java.rmi.Remote;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
public interface Hello extends Remote {
    public void sayHello() throws RemoteException;
package rmi;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
public class HelloServer implements Hello{
    public HelloServer() {
        super();
    public void sayHello() throws RemoteException {
        System.out.println("Ciau!");
package rmi;
import java.rmi.registry.LocateRegistry;
import java.rmi.registry.Registry;
import java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject;
public class HelloMain {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
     try {
         Hello obj = new HelloServer();
         Hello stub = (Hello) UnicastRemoteObject.exportObject(obj, 0);
        // Bind the remote object's stub in the registry
        Registry registry = LocateRegistry.getRegistry();
        registry.bind("Hello", stub);
        System.err.println("Server ready");
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println("Server exception: " + e.toString());
        e.printStackTrace();
}May be I'm wrong with start command, but I tried differents syntax without result.
Can you help me?
Thanks to all.
PS:Sorry for my spaghetti-english :D

Answer 1

I had similar issue and i got rid of it by doing the following:
i. Start rmiregistry from the server code (so that the JVM remains the same) like this
// Server.java
Process pro = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rmiregistry 1099 &");
// ... ii. Use java.rmi.server.codebase property while starting the server
D:\rmiEx\bin>java -Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:/D:\rmiEx\bin example.hello.Server