<THEORY>
I haven't tried this, but I believe nothing in RMI-IIOP is purely Win32 or
Solaris. Like the exectuables that come with the JDK, the rmic.exe
executable is simply a JNI Invocation wrapper around a Java class
(sun.rmi.rmic.Main from the iioptools.jar file). tnameserv.exe is a wrapper
around com.sun.rmi.CosNaming.TransientNameServer, and idl2j.exe is a wrapper
around the Java class com.sun.idl.toJavaPortable.Compile.
Theoretically, if you have a fully-functional JDK 1.2 working on your
platform, and you have the RMI-IIOP jars installed, you should be able to
run the Java classes directly, instead of through the executable. I've done
it with the rmic compiler, and I don't believe the executables add anything
of major importance--they're just convenient wrappers to avoid having to
type "java sun.rmi.rmic.Main" instead of "rmic".)
</THEORY>
Assuming that theory holds true, nothing in RMI-IIOP (or any of its related
technologies) should be platform-specific in any way.
Ted Neward
Patterns/C++/Java/CORBA/EJB/COM-DCOM spoken here
http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward
"I don't even speak for myself; my wife won't let me." --Me
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Pedone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 9:19 AM
Subject: RMI-IIOP on non-Win/Solaris platforms
>If, according to the EJB Spec, you should use
javax.rmi.PortableObject.narrow instead of just typecasting, then how does
one deploy EJB clients or servers on non-Windows or Solaris platforms since
Sun's release of RMI-IIOP is Win/Solaris only?
>
>Tim Pedone
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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