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Ted Neward
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Podmolik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ted Neward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: Uneven behaviour of Stubs for EJB in Weblogic
> Ted Neward wrote:
>
> > The dynamic download of stubs is not mandated by the J2EE
specification--in
> > fact, you're flying directly in the face of the J2EE Spec, because
dynamic
> > download of stubs is not handled under the IIOP protocol, which is the
> > preferred RMI protocol for EJB.
>
>
> According to Sun's home page for RMI-IIOP (which can be found at
> http://java.sun.com/products/rmi-iiop/):
>
> RMI over IIOP is based on two specifications of the Object
> Management Group:
>
> * Java Language Mapping to OMG IDL Specification
> * CORBA/IIOP 2.3.1 Specification, formal/99-10-07
>
> The first specification (http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/00-01-06)
> explicitly states that downloading *is* supported. Section 1.4.9 is
> titled "Code Downloading" and starts with this statement:
>
> Class downloading is supported for stubs, ties, values, and value
> helpers. The specification has been designed to be implementable
> using either JDK 1.1.6 or Java 2 APIs, allows transmission of
> codebase information on the wire for stubs and ties, and
> enables usage of pre-existing ClassLoaders when relevant.
>
> The rest of the section documents the required mechanism in detail.
>
> -- Larry
>
>
>
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