On Tuesday 27 April 2004 22:35, Alex Karasulu wrote: > > Jini builds upon the concept of "leasing".
> That's a very interesting mechanism. Does that do away with things like > stale handles now that we know a handle is useless after the lease period > is up? Yes it does. The support class in the Jini Kit handles the Leasing for you (both client and server side). However, even in non-JINI, in RMI there is a remote garbage collector that will release references to the Remote objects (I think the default is 2 minutes, otherwise 10 ). If you use other network protocols, you will need to attend to this somehow... Niclas -- +---------//-------------------+ | http://www.bali.ac | | http://niclas.hedhman.org | +------//----------------------+ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]