Spring Cookbook

Querying an existing Hessian service

In this recipe, we will configure a Spring web application, so that it will be able to execute a method on an existing Hessian service.

Getting ready

We will query the Hessian service of the previous Creating a Hessian service recipe.

We need the UserService interface, so that our application knows the methods available on the Hessian service:

public interface UserService {
  public abstract List<User> findAll();
  public abstract void addUser(User user);
}

User objects will be exchanged over the network, so we need the User class of the previous recipe as well:

public class User implements Serializable { private String name; private int age; public User(String name, int age) { this.name = name; this.age = age; } // ...