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    copied!<p>I'm currently working on a distributed services architecture for a project at work. Essentially, we are managing upwards of 200 machines. Each of these machines has an instance of a service running on them that allows us to interface with the machine in a specific way.</p> <p>At the center I have a control application which needs to talk to these 200 identical services. I was hoping to use RMI via Spring Remoting to make this happen, allowing me to @Autowire my remote service into my @Controller and treat it like a local service with exception propagation and maybe in the future propagation of transactions / security context via hooks.</p> <p>This works great for a single service on a single machine where I can hardcode the remote service in my Spring configuration, but what I'm not able to figure out is how to dynamically choose which service (aka, which machine) I want to talk to at runtime and make that remote service available the "Spring" way.</p> <p>I would like to be able to configure this dynamically from a database table and use the same table information to do a service lookup, while still taking advantage of dependency injection.</p> <p>I thought of maybe injecting some kind of service manager that could do a service lookup of some sort, but was hoping someone else has managed to solve this (or a similar) problem elegantly.</p> <p>An example of a hardcoded, single service instance would be like so:</p> <p>The first XML snippet is on the machine service itself, telling Spring to expose it via RMI</p> <pre><code>&lt;!-- Expose DeviceService via RMI --&gt; &lt;bean class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiServiceExporter"&gt; &lt;property name="serviceName" value="DeviceService" /&gt; &lt;property name="service" ref="deviceService" /&gt; &lt;property name="serviceInterface" value="com.example.service.DeviceService" /&gt; &lt;property name="registryPort" value="1199" /&gt; &lt;/bean&gt; </code></pre> <p>The second XML snippet is on the client (control application) which lets me access the exposed service</p> <pre><code>&lt;!-- Proxy our remote DeviceService via RMI --&gt; &lt;bean id="remoteDeviceService" class="org.springframework.remoting.rmi.RmiProxyFactoryBean"&gt; &lt;property name="serviceUrl" value="rmi://machineurl:1199/DeviceService"/&gt; &lt;property name="serviceInterface" value="com.example.service.DeviceService"/&gt; &lt;/bean&gt; </code></pre> <p>It's that second bit of configuration that I'm trying to make dynamic. As you can see, to create this service proxy, I need to know at bean creation time the service URL. The Service URL can be 1 of 200+ variations, depending on what machine I want to talk to. The service I'm talking to is the same interface, but I won't know which machine until runtime depending on the current request context.</p>
 

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