Hey
Jon Tirsen wrote:
> > Well, the proxy would be a client in a sense... defining "client" in
> > this type of system is non-trivial..
> >
> > /Rickard
> >
>
> The concept client stems from old client/server-terminology and is
> insufficient for describing a distributed object-system, where any object
> can be both server and client.
Exactly. It would perhaps be a good if people used the term "GUI" (or
similar) instead of "client", because this is what they often mean.
Here's one of my favourite posts to the RMI-USERS list awhile ago:
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Q: What is a server?
A: A provider of services (1 or more)
Q: What is a client?
A: A lightweight server (0 or more services are provided) using the
services provided by a server
Hence a client can be a server and a server can be a client. All other
restrictions are only in your mind.
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Plain and simple.
/R
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