RFR: 8023447: change specification to allow RMI activation to be optional

[Stuart Marks]

Hi all,

Please review this specification-only change to allow RMI activation to 
be optional. RMI activation, unlike the rest of RMI, pretty much 
requires the ability to fork processes at will. This causes difficulties 
in certain situations, such as in small embedded configurations. 
Activation is typically unnecessary in such environments, hence it makes 
sense for it to be optional.

Essentially the change is the addition of a small paragraph to the 
package doc for java.rmi.activation, and adding spec for throwing 
UnsupportedOperationException to a bunch of methods in this package.


Bug report:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8023447

Webrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8023447/webrev.5/

Specdiff:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8023447/specdiff.5/overview-summary.html

Thanks,

s'marks