How to enable encryption on a RMIIO stream using JBoss 6

I want to encrypt communications between a JBoss 6.1.0.Final server and my client. To do this I activated SSL over RMI and it works well. However, I use RMIIO too and it was not automatically encrypted when I activated SSL encryption over RMI. In a best case scenario, I would like to use the same encryption technique I used to encrypt RMI communications.

Here is my configuration:

server/myThing/deploy/remoting-jboss-beans.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0">

    <deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0">

       <bean name="UnifiedInvokerConnector" class="org.jboss.remoting.transport.Connector">
          <annotation>@org.jboss.aop.microcontainer.aspects.jmx.JMX(name="jboss.remoting:service=Connector,transport=socket",exposedInterface=org.jboss.remoting.transport.ConnectorMBean.class,registerDirectly=true)</annotation>
          <property name="serverConfiguration"><inject bean="UnifiedInvokerConfiguration"/></property>
          <!-- add this to configure the SSL socket for the UnifiedInvoker -->
          <property name="serverSocketFactory"><inject bean="SSLServerSocketFactoryEJB2"/></property>
       </bean>

       <!-- Remoting server configuration -->
       <bean name="UnifiedInvokerConfiguration" class="org.jboss.remoting.ServerConfiguration">
          <constructor>
             <!-- Changed from socket to sslsocket -->
             <parameter>sslsocket</parameter>
          </constructor>
          <!-- some other stuff, kept as the default config -->
       </bean>

       <!-- Some stuff removed to simplify the explanation -->

       <!-- Added for SSL security -->
       <bean name="SSLServerSocketFactoryEJB2" class="org.jboss.security.ssl.DomainServerSocketFactory">
         <constructor>
           <parameter><inject bean="EJB2SSLDomain"/></parameter>
         </constructor>
       </bean>

       <!-- Added for SSL security -->
       <bean name="EJB2SSLDomain" class="org.jboss.security.plugins.JaasSecurityDomain">
         <constructor>
           <parameter>EJB2SSLDomain</parameter>
         </constructor>
         <property name="keyStoreURL">C:\MyData\Security\ssl.keystore</property>
         <property name="keyStorePass">MyPassword</property>
         <property name="keyStoreAlias">MyAlias</property>
         <property name="trustStorePass">MyPassword</property>
       </bean>

    </deployment>

server/myThing/deploy/properties-service.xml

<server>

  <!-- some stuff removed -->

  <mbean code="org.jboss.varia.property.SystemPropertiesService" 
     name="jboss:type=Service,name=SystemProperties">

    <attribute name="Properties">
      com.healthmarketscience.rmiio.exporter.port=11099
    </attribute>

  </mbean>
</server>

Solution

It's been awhile since i poked at RMI and SSL. However, RMIIO has a specific interface which allows you to customize the underlying "remoting" implementation, the RemoteStreamExporter. If you look at the DefaultRemoteStreamExporter implementation, you can see how the RMI objects are exported by default. My guess is that you want to use similar implementation which calls the 4 parameter export method with the appropriate RMI SSL socket factories.