RFR: 8023862: deprecate HTTP proxying from RMI

[Mandy Chung]

On 10/21/2013 5:23 PM, Stuart Marks wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please review the following spec change (deprecation) and change of a 
> property default value.
>
> Briefly, RMI has some machinery that will attempt to tunnel RMI 
> requests through HTTP under certain circumstances. This is a 
> maintenance burden and also causes customer confusion. The change here 
> deprecates the HTTP tunneling mechanism and changes a property to 
> disable HTTP tunneling by default.
> ...
> Webrev:
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8023862/webrev.0/
>

This change looks fine.  Just minor comments:

java/rmi/server/RMISocketFactory.java
   47 * value to {@code false} will re-enable the HTTP tunneling mechanisms.

nit: In the context of a specification, would it be appropriate to say 
"enable" instead of "re-enable"?

sun/rmi/transport/proxy/RMIMasterSocketFactory.java
   line 120-123 which is existing code: is this catch block redundant?

I assume that separate bug will be filed to update the RMI documentations.

Mandy