Is it possible to use RMI bidirectional between two classes?

Question

I want to share some information between two classes (A and B), which are running in different java programs. Instead of writing a whole communication protocol I want to use

Answer 1

I implemented 2 way RMI between cleint and server with server exposing its stub using Registry

1. The client gets a stub of the server
2. Then the client puts its stub as Observer to the server's addObserver method
3. The server notifies the clients using this stub

The following code will gives a better idea

import java.rmi.*;
import java.rmi.registry.*;
import java.rmi.server.*;
import java.util.Observable;
import java.util.Observer;
import java.net.*;

import javax.rmi.ssl.SslRMIClientSocketFactory;
import javax.rmi.ssl.SslRMIServerSocketFactory;

interface ReceiveMessageInterface extends Remote
{
    /**
     * @param x
     * @throws RemoteException
     */
    void receiveMessage(String x) throws RemoteException;

    /**
     * @param observer
     * @throws RemoteException
     */
    void addObserver(Remote observer) throws RemoteException;
}

/**
 * 
 */
class RmiClient extends UnicastRemoteObject
{
    /**
     * @param args
     */
    static public void main(String args[])
    {
        ReceiveMessageInterface rmiServer;
        Registry registry;
        String serverAddress = args[0];
        String serverPort = args[1];
        String text = args[2];
        System.out.println("sending " + text + " to " + serverAddress + ":" + serverPort);
        try
        { // Get the server's stub
            registry = LocateRegistry.getRegistry(serverAddress, (new Integer(serverPort)).intValue());
            rmiServer = (ReceiveMessageInterface) (registry.lookup("rmiServer"));

            // RMI client will give a stub of itself to the server
            Remote aRemoteObj = (Remote) UnicastRemoteObject.exportObject(new RmiClient(), 0);
            rmiServer.addObserver(aRemoteObj);

            // call the remote method
            rmiServer.receiveMessage(text);
            // update method will be notified
        }
        catch (RemoteException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (NotBoundException e)
        {
            System.err.println(e);
        }
    }

    public void update(String a) throws RemoteException
    {
        // update should take some serializable object as param NOT Observable
        // and Object
        // Server callsbacks here
    }
}

/**
 * 
 */
class RmiServer extends Observable implements ReceiveMessageInterface
{
    String address;
    Registry registry;

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public void receiveMessage(String x) throws RemoteException
    {
        System.out.println(x);
        setChanged();
        notifyObservers(x + "invoked me");
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public void addObserver(final Remote observer) throws RemoteException
    {
        // This is where you plug in client's stub
        super.addObserver(new Observer()
        {
            @Override
            public void update(Observable o,
                Object arg)
            {
                try
                {
                    ((RmiClient) observer).update((String) arg);
                }
                catch (RemoteException e)
                {

                }
            }
        });
    }

    /**
     * @throws RemoteException
     */
    public RmiServer() throws RemoteException
    {
        try
        {
            address = (InetAddress.getLocalHost()).toString();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("can't get inet address.");
        }
        int port = 3232;
        System.out.println("this address=" + address + ",port=" + port);
        try
        {
            registry = LocateRegistry.createRegistry(port);
            registry.rebind("rmiServer", this);
        }
        catch (RemoteException e)
        {
            System.out.println("remote exception" + e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 
     * @param args
     */
    static public void main(String args[])
    {
        try
        {
            RmiServer server = new RmiServer();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(1);
        }
    }
}