Hi,
Did anybody have tried calling a bean using a external tomcat. i.e tomcat and jboss instance running in a seperate vm. I was trying to call an ejb from a external vm. I am able to obtain the bean home from the JBoss Naming Service. But when i call the create method on the home It gives me following error.

java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:
java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling arguments; nested exception is:
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: Files/Apache
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:292)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:148)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:144)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:460)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:701)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.exceptionReceivedFromServer(StreamRemoteCall.java:247)
at sun.rmi.transport.StreamRemoteCall.executeCall(StreamRemoteCall.java:223)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.invoke(UnicastRef.java:133)
at org.jboss.invocation.jrmp.server.JRMPInvoker_Stub.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.invocation.jrmp.interfaces.JRMPInvokerProxy.invoke(JRMPInvokerProxy.java:128)
at org.jboss.invocation.InvokerInterceptor.invoke(InvokerInterceptor.java:108)
at org.jboss.proxy.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:73)
at org.jboss.proxy.SecurityInterceptor.invoke(SecurityInterceptor.java:76)
at org.jboss.proxy.ejb.HomeInterceptor.invoke(HomeInterceptor.java:185)
at org.jboss.proxy.ClientContainer.invoke(ClientContainer.java:76)
at $Proxy0.create(Unknown Source)
at TestServlet.doGet(TestServlet.java:51)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet.serveRequest(InvokerServlet.java:446)
at org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet.doGet(InvokerServlet.java:180)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:201)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:246)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2344)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:164)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:462)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:163)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:1011)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1106)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
Caused by: java.rmi.UnmarshalException: error unmarshalling arguments; nested exception is:
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: Files/Apache
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:249)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:148)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:144)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:460)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:701)
... 1 more
Caused by: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: Files/Apache
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:579)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:476)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:425)
at sun.rmi.server.LoaderHandler.pathToURLs(LoaderHandler.java:743)
at sun.rmi.server.LoaderHandler.loadClass(LoaderHandler.java:159)
at java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoader$2.loadClass(RMIClassLoader.java:629)
at java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoader.loadClass(RMIClassLoader.java:257)
at sun.rmi.server.MarshalInputStream.resolveClass(MarshalInputStream.java:200)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1503)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1425)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1616)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1264)
at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:322)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastRef.unmarshalValue(UnicastRef.java:297)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:246)
... 6 more

I am not able to figure out what mistake i had made. Could anybody tell me why i am getting this exception.

Any Info will be greatly apprecited.
dkmankotia