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

[Bob Vandette]

Alan,

Excuse me if I'm a bit frustrated by this issue ...

We keep going around and around on this issue.  We had a discussion with Stuart and the JCK
team and Stuart didn't want to change the specification.  Has he now changed his mind?

Security and configuration issues aside, I don't understand why it doesn't make sense to remote 
activate an Object in an API that is supposed implement "Remote Method Invocation" support.  
The fact that it only supports activation on a local host seems to be a bug to me.


Bob.


On Jul 27, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:

> 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