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

[Joseph Darcy]

Looks fine; cheers,

-Joe

On 9/5/2013 3:46 PM, Stuart Marks wrote:
> 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