Package com.caucho.hessian.client

Portable client code for using Hessian services.

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Description

Interface Summary

HessianConnection	Internal connection to a server.
HessianConnectionFactory	Internal factory for creating connections to the server.
HessianMetaInfoAPI	API retrieving hessian meta information.

Class Summary

AbstractHessianConnection	Internal connection to a server.
AbstractHessianConnectionFactory	Internal factory for creating connections to the server.
HessianProxy	Proxy implementation for Hessian clients.
HessianProxyFactory	Factory for creating Hessian client stubs.
HessianProxyResolver	Looks up remote objects in the proxy.
HessianURLConnection	Internal connection to a server.
HessianURLConnectionFactory	Internal factory for creating connections to the server.

Exception Summary

HessianConnectionException	Exception caused by failure of the client proxy to connect to the server.
HessianRuntimeException	Wrapper for protocol exceptions thrown in the proxy.

Package com.caucho.hessian.client Description

Portable client code for using Hessian services. Since this package is independent of all Resin code, its classes can be copied to a non-Resin client jar.

RPC Proxy Clients - HessianProxyFactory

Most application clients will use HessianProxyFactory to create stub objects. The stub objects can be called with normal Java calls. Because the objects are remote, the client application needs to be able to deal with IOException caused by an unavailable server or a protocol error.

import com.caucho.hessian.client.HessianProxyFactory;

...

URL url = new URL("http://localhost:8080/ejb/hello");
HelloHome hello = (HelloHome) factory.create(HelloHome.class, url);

System.out.println("hello: " + hello.hello());

Serialization

Since the Hessian protocol serializes Java objects to XML, the HessianSerializerOutput and HessianSerializerInput can be used for serialization.

Serialization

OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream("test.xml");
HessianOutput out = new HessianSerializerOutput(os);

out.writeObject(obj);
os.close();

Deserialization

InputStream is = new FileInputStream("test.xml");
HessianInput in = new HessianSerializerInput(in);

Object obj = in.readObject();

is.close();

MicroHessianInput and MicroHessianOutput

These two classes only require classes from Java MicroEdition. So they can be extracted separately into a hessian-micro.jar. Because of this restriction and their small size, these two classes are ideal for limited size devices like mobile phones and PDAs.