> That's a very good point. Its a nice feature and it will be more valuable
to customers
> when the JDK 1.3 is out of beta and is actually used as a production VM.
For now
> however, I don't think its such a good idea because it only works in JDK
1.3 and no
> one is using JDK 1.3 in production -- in fact, many are still using JDK
1.1!
> I commend Magnus Stenman of Orion who originally invented the idea of
using the new
> Proxy class for auto generating stubs on the client (Give credit where
credit is
> due). Actually, as Magnus pointed out once, credit also goes to Object
Space's
> Voyager team who were the first to do something like this using a custom
VM a couple
> of years ago. Object Space is a true innovator.
Sorry for the delayed response (don't get to go through the list very
often), but...
<vendor>
we (ObjectSpace) have actually been auto-generating stubs on the client
since the
container's release last year; everything is pure Java so no custom VM is
required (even
runs on MSVM). The only drawback was that the proxy mechanism would suck
down the
bean's implementation class from the server and pollute the client's vm
(technically,
all that should be required is the interface), but that was resolved a
couple months
later. Of course, you can always statically generate the proxies and either
distribute
them manually or dynamically load them from a directory server, but the
runtime gen is
fast enough for most projects.
</vendor>
Mike
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