title: RMI client in a OSGi container
body: <p>I need to expose a RMI-based system in an OSGi bundle. The RMI client "bundle" is a jar which I converted into a OSGi bundle using the bnd tool (I don't have access to the sources) and at least in eclipse everything seems to be fine, but when I try to connect to the RMI server, a ClassCastException is throwed, much probably because either OSGi and RMI make a funny use of the ClassLoader.</p>
  
  <p>How can I solve this? maybe using the RMI client jar as a "system" bundle?</p>
  
  <p>Here is the stack trace:</p>
  
  <pre>
  Blipnet OSGi service starting...
  com.blipsystems.blipnet.api.blipserver.BlipServerConnectionException: There was a problem connecting to the server
      at com.blipsystems.blipnet.api.core.blipserver.BlipServerConnectionAdapter.(Unknown Source)
      at com.blipsystems.blipnet.api.core.blipserver.BlipServerConnectionAdapter.(Unknown Source)
      at com.blipsystems.blipnet.api.blipserver.BlipServer.getConnection(Unknown Source)
      at dk.itu.jingling.blipnetosgi.BlipnetConnectionService.setup(BlipnetConnectionService.java:28)
      at dk.itu.jingling.blipnetosgi.BlipnetConnectionService.(BlipnetConnectionService.java:22)
      at dk.itu.jingling.blipnetosgi.Activator.start(Activator.java:32)
      at org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction$Actions.run(SecureAction.java:1235)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.startActivator(SecureAction.java:658)
      at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.activateBundle(Felix.java:1699)
      at org.apache.felix.framework.Felix.startBundle(Felix.java:1621)
      at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.start(BundleImpl.java:890)
      at org.apache.felix.framework.BundleImpl.start(BundleImpl.java:877)
      at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.start(DirectoryWatcher.java:819)
      at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.start(DirectoryWatcher.java:805)
      at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.startAllBundles(DirectoryWatcher.java:798)
      at org.apache.felix.fileinstall.internal.DirectoryWatcher.run(DirectoryWatcher.java:299)
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: com.blipsystems.blipnet.blipserver.cms.NewApiHandler_Stub cannot be cast to com.blipsystems.blipnet.api.core.blipserver.RemoteBlipServerConnection
  </pre>