Minimal RMI server fails at in UnicastRemoteObject constructor

[Tom O'Reilly]

Hello,

I'm new to gcj, and trying to compile an RMI server to native code on my
Linux (Fedora) workstation. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am
running gcj version 3.4.2.

My server ("BenchServer") is quite minimal; it extends
UnicastRemoteObject, and implements an interface ("Benchmark") that
contains just one method. The server's constructor first invokes
"super()", which generates an ExceptionInInitializerError, with message
"Operation not allowed".

Here are my build steps:

Compile the BenchServer class with javac, so that we can use gjc to
generate stub/skeleton
   javac BenchServer.java

Generate stub:
   rmic -v1.2 -d . BenchServer

Convert stub to native code:
   gcj -c BenchServer_Stub.class

Compile .java source files to native code:
   gcj -c Benchmark.java BenchServer.java

Next, link the objects, specify "main" and "policy" file:
   gcj Benchmark.o BenchServer.o 
BenchServer_Stub.o --main=BenchServer -Djava.security.policy=policy

The policy file looks like this:
  grant {
    // Allow everyone access to everything
    permission java.security.AllPermission;
  };

Now I run the a.out executable, which takes one argument (the host
name):

  a.out etna
  Setting security manager
  Constructing server...
  Got Exception: Operation not allowed
  Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
  *** Got java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu.gcj.runtime.NameFinder
while trying
  to print stack trace.
  Aborted

Anyone know what is going on? Following is my source code:

// Benchmark.java
import java.rmi.Remote;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

/** Minimal RMI interface. */
public interface Benchmark extends Remote {

  void emptyTest() throws RemoteException;
}


// BenchServer.java
import java.rmi.RemoteException;
import java.rmi.RMISecurityManager;
import java.rmi.Naming;
import java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject;

/** Implementation of minimal RMI server. */
public class BenchServer extends UnicastRemoteObject
    implements Benchmark {

    public BenchServer() throws RemoteException {
        super();
        System.out.println("Done with constructor.");
    }

    public void emptyTest() {
        System.out.println("emptyTest()");
    }


    public static void main(String args[]) {

        if (args.length != 1) {
            System.err.println("Usage: BenchServer hostname");
            return;
        }

        if (System.getSecurityManager() == null) {
            System.out.println("Setting security manager");
            System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager());
        }

        try {

            System.out.println("Constructing server...");

            BenchServer server = new BenchServer();
            System.out.println("server: " + server);

            String url = "//localhost/benchmark1";

            System.out.println("Binding server to " + url + "...");
            Naming.rebind(url, server);
            System.out.println("Benchmark1Impl is bound to " + url);
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Got Exception: " + e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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