RemoteAccessException

Class Overview

Generic remote access exception. A service proxy for any remoting protocol should throw this exception or subclasses of it, in order to transparently expose a plain Java business interface.

When using conforming proxies, switching the actual remoting protocol e.g. from Hessian to Burlap does not affect client code. Clients work with a plain natural Java business interface that the service exposes. A client object simply receives an implementation for the interface that it needs via a bean reference, like it does for a local bean as well.

A client may catch RemoteAccessException if it wants to, but as remote access errors are typically unrecoverable, it will probably let such exceptions propagate to a higher level that handles them generically. In this case, the client code doesn't show any signs of being involved in remote access, as there aren't any remoting-specific dependencies.

Even when switching from a remote service proxy to a local implementation of the same interface, this amounts to just a matter of configuration. Obviously, the client code should be somewhat aware that it might be working against a remote service, for example in terms of repeated method calls that cause unnecessary roundtrips etc. However, it doesn't have to be aware whether it is actually working against a remote service or a local implementation, or with which remoting protocol it is working under the hood.

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From class org.springframework.core.NestedRuntimeException boolean contains(Class exType) Check whether this exception contains an exception of the given type: either it is of the given class itself or it contains a nested cause of the given type. String getMessage() Return the detail message, including the message from the nested exception if there is one. Throwable getMostSpecificCause() Retrieve the most specific cause of this exception, that is, either the innermost cause (root cause) or this exception itself. Throwable getRootCause() Retrieve the innermost cause of this exception, if any.
From class java.lang.Throwable synchronized Throwable fillInStackTrace() Throwable getCause() String getLocalizedMessage() String getMessage() StackTraceElement[] getStackTrace() synchronized Throwable initCause(Throwable arg0) void printStackTrace(PrintWriter arg0) void printStackTrace(PrintStream arg0) void printStackTrace() void setStackTrace(StackTraceElement[] arg0) String toString()
From class java.lang.Object Object clone() boolean equals(Object arg0) void finalize() final Class<?> getClass() int hashCode() final void notify() final void notifyAll() String toString() final void wait() final void wait(long arg0, int arg1) final void wait(long arg0)