So, maybe transportable or transported or forwarded…
Gregg
On Jun 29, 2014, at 4:41 AM, Peter Firmstone <j...@zeus.net.au> wrote:
> Hi Gregg,
>
> Thinking out loud:
>
> Transferable, I think it's close, it works for TransferableObjectFactory,
> it's created on demand to transfer a non serializable object via a
> serialization stream and it transfers a factory from one jvm to another, in
> order to recrate the original object in another jvm.
>
> As for Distributed, transfer would imply the original object is moved from
> one place to another (deleted and recreated), while that could occur, it's
> also possible for the originating object to be duplicated as well, so it
> works for what's currently called SerialReflectionFactory, but Transferable
> wouldn't be a candidate for the Distributed interface.
>
> If the original object has state, then it would be a snapshot of the original
> object at some point in time, hence memento.
>
> It could be called TransferableMemento or SerializableMemento, it's created
> within a ObjectOutputStream and replaced in an ObjectInputStream.
>
> Then that leaves Distributed, perhaps Distributable is better? Other words
> are Propagatable, Disseminatable. Latin: disseminare "scattering seeds"
>
> interface Distributable {
> SerializableMemento distribute();
> }
>
> Dissemino - dis (in all directions) + semino (I plant, I sow).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
>
> On 29/06/2014 1:32 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote:
>> TransferableObjectFactory?
>>
>> Gregg
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:14 AM, Stefano Mariani<s.mari...@unibo.it> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Il giorno 23/giu/2014, alle ore 13:24, Peter
>>> Firmstone<j...@zeus.net.au<mailto:j...@zeus.net.au>> ha scritto:
>>>
>>> recreate themselves remotely
>>>
>>> Why not
>>>
>>> * RemoteRecreationFactory
>>> * DistributedCloningFactory
>>> * or a combination of the above?
>>>
>>> This way the name is after the goal of the class, not its implementation...
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