Sounds like a good proposal, River 3.0.
Thoughts?
Peter.
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> My "startnow" project on java.net, has always provide a "separation" of
> construction and start of the service export. However, the usage of that API
> is
> supposed to be something like the following.
>
> public class MyService extends PersistentJiniService {
> public static void main( String args[] ) {
> MyService svc = new MyService(args);
> svc.start();
> }
> private MyService( String args[] ) {
> super( args ); // creates the Configuration instance etc.
> }
> }
>
> However, because of the use of the ServiceStarter framework, I typically
> instead
> have service startup happen as show below,
>
> public class MyService extends PersistentJiniService {
> public MyService( String args[], Lifecycle life ) {
> super(args);
> start();
> }
> }
>
> because ServiceStarter has no other means for starting services. With the
> work
> that you've done to provide that API in ServiceStarter, I'd say that we need
> to
> make an API change and a major version rev to demand that there actually be an
> interface implemented by classes provided to ServiceStarter, in all cases.
>
> For some number of years, I've tried to encourage everyone providing a
> platform
> for service startup/registration, to agree on a common base API that would
> provide portability between containers at some level, which would allow
> everyone
> to try the various containers, and then perhaps we'd be able to really explore
> the features that each provides.
>
> Gregg Wonderly
>
> On May 23, 2013, at 2:40 AM, Peter Firmstone <j...@zeus.net.au> wrote:
>
> > No really, don't.
> >
> > The test failure on arm that has been really driving me nuts for the last
> > month is finally solved, guess what was the cause of the problem?
> >
> > That's right unsafe publication.
> >
> > The "this" reference was published to JERI's ObjectTable prior to
> > construction
> > completing, other threads could see the object in a partially constructed
> > state.
> >
> > This caused problems with synchronization and a lost notifyAll() while
> > another
> > thread was in a call wait(). notifyAll() was being called every 7ms so it
> > was
> > really being tested.
> >
> > For more info, see River-420 on Jira.
> >
> > This goes against a lot of books and literature on how to program Jini, many
> > examples (including our own) export during construction. This is no longer
> > how we should create proxy's, we need to get the message out there. I'm a
> > little short on time for the next few weeks, is anyone able to publish
> > something on our website?
> >
> > The good news is I have fixes for all occurrences of exports duing
> > construction in the main src directory, the bad news is there are a number
> > of
> > instances in the qa suite still to be fixed, although these can be fixed
> > relatively easily because they're not public api. The really bad news is
> > there's going to be a heap of client code out there that has this issue.
> >
> > The other good news is the qa refacting build is starting to look very solid
> > indeed. The last test failure on Arm was actually a segfault in the JVM in
> > an
> > unrelated test, not our problem, unfortunately I didn't find a log file or
> > core dump.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter.
> >
> >
> > This is what the code looks like now it's fixed, previously the proxy was
> > created during construction:
> >
> > /**
> > * Listener that calls notifyAll on itself
> > */
> > public class LeasedSpaceListener
> > implements RemoteEventListener, ServerProxyTrust, Serializable
> > {
> > private static Logger logger =
> >Logger.getLogger("com.sun.jini.qa.harness");
> > private boolean received = false;
> > private Object proxy;
> > private final Exporter exporter;
> > private final AccessControlContext context;
> >
> > public LeasedSpaceListener(Configuration c) throws RemoteException {
> > try {
> > Exporter exporter = QAConfig.getDefaultExporter();
> > if (c instanceof com.sun.jini.qa.harness.QAConfiguration) {
> > exporter =
> > (Exporter) c.getEntry("test",
> > "outriggerListenerExporter",
> > Exporter.class);
> > }
> > this.exporter = exporter;
> > context = AccessController.getContext();
> > // Proxy was originally exported here, allowing "this" to
> >escape.
> > } catch (ConfigurationException e) {
> > throw new RemoteException("Bad configuration", e);
> > }
> > }
> >
> > private synchronized Object getProxy(){
> > if (proxy == null) {
> > proxy = AccessController.doPrivileged(new
> > PrivilegedAction<Object>(){
> >
> > @Override
> > public Object run() {
> > try {
> > return
> >exporter.export(LeasedSpaceListener.this);
> > } catch (ExportException ex) {
> > String message = "Proxy export
> >failed for
> > LeaseListener";
> > logger.log(Level.WARNING, message , ex);
> > return null;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > }, context);
> > }
> > return proxy;
> > }
> >
> > public Object writeReplace() throws ObjectStreamException {
> > return getProxy();
> > }
> >
> > public TrustVerifier getProxyVerifier() {
> > return new BasicProxyTrustVerifier(getProxy());
> > }
> >
> > public void notify(RemoteEvent theEvent)
> > throws UnknownEventException, RemoteException {
> > // Perform logging outside the synchronized block so we don't
> >affect
> > // timing.
> > java.util.Date date = new java.util.Date();
> > synchronized (this){
> > received = true;
> > this.notifyAll();
> > }
> > logger.log(Level.INFO, "notify called at {0}", date.getTime());
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > * @return the received
> > */
> > public synchronized boolean isReceived() {
> > return received;
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > * @param received the received to set
> > */
> > public synchronized void setReceived(boolean received) {
> > this.received = received;
> > }
> > }
> >
>
