RMI, eclipse, rmiregistry and codebase

Question

Hi all,
I'm trying to get sun's RMI hello world (http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/rmi/hello/hello-world.html) to work under eclipse.
This works without problems, but only if i start the rmiregistry from the root of the class tree. (I use a command shell (linux) to start rmiregistry outside of eclipse.) In this case, i don't need to specify a value for the codebase property when starting the server. I don't like this solution because of its ad-hoc-ness, and i would rather set the codebase property and start the rmiregistry from anywhere.
In my run configuration i use the VM argument
-Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:${workspace_loc:/HelloRMIServer/}but that doesn't work, i get an exception:
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: example.hello.Hello
(etcetera...)What am i doing wrong? What is the correct run-configuration in eclipse?
Thanks in advance. Michiel.

Answer 1

Actually I am having a similar problem and it is really strange.
I set the VM Arguments to: -Djava.rmi.server.codebase=file:${workspace_loc}/RMI/ example.hello.Serverand I get: Coult not find the main class. Programm will exit.
Whatever I change in the VM Arguments, the error is the same! I know that this is a question related to Eclipse mainly, but I will appreciate any help!