Spring Remoting by Hessian Example

By the help of HessianServiceExporter and HessianProxyFactoryBean classes, we can implement the remoting service provided by hessian.

Advantage of Hessian

Hessian works well across firewall. Hessian is portable to integrate with other languages such as PHP and .Net.

Example of Remoting by Hessian

You need to create following files for creating a simple hessian application:

Calculation.java
CalculationImpl.java
web.xml
hessian-servlet.xml
client-beans.xml
Client.java

1) Calculation.java

It is the simple interface containing one method cube.

package com.javatpoint;
public interface Calculation {
int cube(int number);
}

2) CalculationImpl.java

This class provides the implementation of Calculation interface.

package com.javatpoint;
public class CalculationImpl implements Calculation{
	public int cube(int number) {
		return number*number*number;
	}
}

3) web.xml

In this xml file, we are defining DispatcherServlet as the front controller. If any request is followed by .http extension, it will be forwarded to DispatcherServlet.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" 
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
	http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
  
	<servlet>
    <servlet-name>hessian</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>hessian</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.http</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

4) hessian-servlet.xml

It must be created inside the WEB-INF folder. Its name must be servletname-servlet.xml. It defines bean for CalculationImpl and HessianServiceExporter.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
	
<bean id="calculationBean" class="com.javatpoint.CalculationImpl"></bean>
<bean name="/Calculation.http" 
class="org.springframework.remoting.caucho.HessianServiceExporter">
	<property name="service" ref="calculationBean"></property>
	<property name="serviceInterface" value="com.javatpoint.Calculation"></property>
</bean>

</beans>

5) client-beans.xml

In this xml file, we are defining bean for HessianProxyFactoryBean. You need to define two properties of this class.

serviceUrl
serviceInterface

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">
	
<bean id="calculationBean" 
class="org.springframework.remoting.caucho.HessianProxyFactoryBean">
	<property name="serviceUrl" 
         value="http://localhost:8888/hessian/Calculation.http"></property>
	<property name="serviceInterface" value="com.javatpoint.Calculation"></property>
</bean>
</beans>

In this example, our project name is hessian, i.e. used as the context root in the serviceURL.

6) Client.java

This class gets the instance of Calculation and calls the cube method.

package com.javatpoint;
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class Client {
 public static void main(String[] args){
  ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("client-beans.xml");
  Calculation calculation = (Calculation)context.getBean("calculationBean");
  System.out.println(calculation.cube(5));
 }
}

How to run this example

Start and deploy the project, here we are assuming that server is running on 8888 port number. If the port number is different, change the serviceURL in client-beans.xml.

Then, Compile and Run the Client.java file.

download this example (developed using Myeclipse IDE)

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