RMI RemoteException

[David Holmes - Sun Microsystems]

HI Trenton,

This might not be the right place for it but ... RemoteException is 
checked because you have to understand that it can happen (and 
occasionally will) and you have to think about what can be done to 
recover (even if you ultimately decide to just to "fail" by throwing 
some other exception). The "distributed computing can be transparent" 
myth was debunked years ago (I used to work with a system that tried it 
and nicely demonstrated why it didn't work!).

Jim Waldo has a famous paper on this topic "Notes on Distributed Computing":

http://research.sun.com/techrep/1994/abstract-29.html

Cheers,
David Holmes
Senior Java Technologist
Java SE VM Real-time and Embedded Group
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Trenton D. Adams said the following on 08/30/08 06:21:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Is this the right list to be discussing RMI topics?  I saw some RMI related stuff when I did a site search on google.
> 
> I'm curious what the reasoning is behind leaving RemoteException as a checked exception.  It seems to me that it would be more relevant to have it as a RuntimeException, as there is not a whole lot one can do about it.
> 
> Any ideas why it might be that way?  If there is agreement that it should be an unchecked exception, any hope of moving toward it being unchecked?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Trenton D. Adams
> Systems Analyst/Web Software Engineer
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