On Sunday 21 November 2004 01:38, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > Only from the Sun doc - I've not taken my time reading their serialization > source code. Doc gives impression that it is gotta be universally unique > number.
:o) Your "excuse" is accepted... To brief you why I "happen to know"; I used to be heavily involved in RMI/Serialization back in the late 90's. I had my own kind-of RMI implementation under JDK1.0, so when RMI was released n JDK1.1, I was quick to throw away my own garbage and use RMI extremely early, and got to know a fair bit of the inner workings early on, and strong participation in the RMI community. That resulted in being invited by Sun to participate in JSR-78 RMI Custom Remote Reference (http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=78). Anecdote; The spec was forced through the process too quickly to be ready for the JDK1.4, and had parts that didn't belong (thread pooling and configuration), and that was a shame. Otherwise a really cool thing, which would allow for JSR-76 RMI Security. Most of JSR78 ended up in the Jini community, but I haven't followed that... Cheers Niclas -- +------//-------------------+ / http://www.bali.ac / / http://niclas.hedhman.org / +------//-------------------+
