8016036: RMI specification needs to be updated to allow Activation on remote hosts

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/07/2013 21:15, Stephen Flores wrote:
> Bob, Sean,
>
> Please review this webrev
>
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sflores/8016036/webrev.00/
>
> for RFE/CCC: 8016036 RMI specification needs to be updated to allow 
> Activation on remote hosts
I didn't see any replies to this but I chatted briefly with Stuart Marks 
about this a few days ago as it's not clear (to me anyway) that this is 
the right thing to do. In particular it would be good to understand why 
the specification can't be changed to allow for environments that 
doesn't support multiple VM instances or where it's not possible to 
launch a new VM. This would amount to not supporting activation in such 
environments. Has this approach been explored? It could of course 
require being creative in the specifications but there are other 
examples of this type of thing.

-Alan