On 7/31/2011 5:35 AM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
I think this would be useful in an internet environment, where a developer wants to export an object and hand it as a parameter to another service, and have it unexported automatically when no longer required.
This is why I make my smart proxy classes be InvocationHandlers and then embed the real remote object and a lease into the marshalled object. With deferred unmarshalling, then others who unmarshall it for use, apply a LeaseRenewalManager on the lease as well so that everyone using it is making sure the server is not releasing it.
Endpoints as they exist today, are not mobile because of code contamination and lost-code-base issues that occur when a remote object is remarshalled to send across the wire.
Multiple unmarshalling activities in the same JVM might not be safe if there is static class initialization that should of been per-instance.
I think this is an area that needs some investigation for sure. Gregg
