/* Copyright (c) 2007 Health Market Science, Inc. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA You can contact Health Market Science at info@healthmarketscience.com or at the following address: Health Market Science 2700 Horizon Drive Suite 200 King of Prussia, PA 19406 */ package examples.stream; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.rmi.registry.LocateRegistry; import java.rmi.registry.Registry; import com.healthmarketscience.rmiio.SimpleRemoteInputStream; /** * Example client which sends a file (given on the command line) to the * example server using a RemoteInputStream. * * @author James Ahlborn */ public class TestClient { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { if(args.length < 1) { System.err.println("Usage: <file>"); System.exit(1); } // grab the file name from the commandline String fileName = args[0]; // get a handle to the remote service to which we want to send the file Registry registry = LocateRegistry.getRegistry(); RemoteFileServer stub = (RemoteFileServer) registry.lookup("RemoteFileServer"); System.out.println("Sending file " + fileName); // setup the remote input stream. note, the client here is actually // acting as an RMI server (very confusing, i know). this code sets up an // RMI server in the client, which the RemoteFileServer will then // interact with to get the file data. SimpleRemoteInputStream istream = new SimpleRemoteInputStream( new FileInputStream(fileName)); try { // call the remote method on the server. the server will actually // interact with the RMI "server" we started above to retrieve the // file data stub.sendFile(istream.export()); } finally { // always make a best attempt to shutdown RemoteInputStream istream.close(); } System.out.println("Finished sending file " + fileName); } }