java RMI: Exception, java.io.EOFException

[Agni]

Hi,

I'm writing my first RMI application, it's an auction system. At the end of the auction period for a particular item the server sends a 'callback' to the winning client telling him that he's won. It works fine till here, but after that i get this exception. It shows on the client console, but i suspect it's coming from the server. Any clues what's going on here? Please let me know if you need to see the client or server code.

I use java rmi client and server.
This is the exception below:

java.rmi.UnmarshalException: Error unmarshaling return header; nested exception is:
java.io.EOFException
at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:209)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:142)
at das.auction.client.ClientDriver_Stub.notify(Unknown Source)
at das.auction.server.RemoteAuctionImpl.notifyWinnerInfo(RemoteAuctionImpl.java:220)
at das.auction.server.RemoteAuctionImpl$BidTimeReached.run(RemoteAuctionImpl.java:75)
at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512)
at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException
at java.io.DataInputStream.readByte(DataInputStream.java:250)
at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:195)
... 6 more

This is code where i call client callback method in server. the stack comes from the catch block of this method.

public void notifyWinnerInfo(String itemCodeId,String userId,Integer maxBidVal)
        {
                try
                {
                        System.out.println("update winner and notify clients");
                        Set<Map.Entry<Subscriber,UserInfo>> subsUserMapArray = subscriberList.entrySet();
                        Iterator it = subsUserMapArray.iterator();
                        Subscriber winner;
                        System.out.println("# of elements in iterator " + subsUserMapArray.size());
                        while(it.hasNext())
                        {
                                System.out.println("element found");
                                Map.Entry<Subscriber,UserInfo> m = (Map.Entry<Subscriber,UserInfo>)it.next();
                                UserInfo uid = m.getValue();
                                Subscriber s = m.getKey();
                                if(uid.getUID().equals(userId))
                                {
                                        s.notify(itemCodeId,maxBidVal,Boolean.TRUE);
                                }
                                else
                                {
                                        s.notify(itemCodeId,maxBidVal,Boolean.FALSE);
                                }
                        }                      
                }
                catch(Exception re)
                {
                        System.out.println("UpdateUserBid"); // This is where the stack comes from, i get this system.out
                        re.printStackTrace();
                }
        }

This is the client code for this callback

public void notify(String itemCodeId,Integer maxBidVal,Boolean winner)
        {
                System.out.print((char)27 + "[2J");
                System.out.println("server notification: " + " ItemCodeId: " + itemCodeId + " maxBidVal: " + maxBidVal + " winner?: " + winner);
                if(!winner)
                {
                        System.out.println("Sorry, you were not the highest bidder");
                }
                else
                        System.out.println("Congrats !! you have won the bid for this item, Please see our website for payment options");

                //sleep here for sometime then go to first screen again

                ClientStateMachine.nextItem = "WELCOME";
                ClientStateMachine.run();
        }

as soon as i do anything on the first screen now, i get the stack.