Thanks Richard for an even better reply. I have just
seen an another post (security & omg) and think that
war is about to break out. Lets get down.
Richard.
--- Richard Monson-Haefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Robert Isepin wrote:
>
> > 2. The dicussion of RMI-IIOP support has gone off
> the
> > track somewhat. The first post has not been
> answered.
> > In fact it has been ignored by people who claimed
> that
> > others are doing the same. Does the current
> J2EE/EJB
> > 1.1 specification not state that RMI-IIOP is
> > mandatory.
>
> Sorry but the specs do NOT require the use of RMI
> over IIOP. This is a point
> of confusion for most people. The EJB 1.1 and J2EE
> specs do not require that
> the IIOP wire protocol be used. The specs only
> require that the EJB client APIs
> adhere to RMI-IIOP semantics. Which means that only
> legal RMI-IIOP value and
> reference types can be used in remote and home
> interfaces. In addition it
> requires that the
> javax.rmi.PortableRemoteObject.narrow( ) method must
> be
> used. Except for the narrow( ) method, the other
> restrictions will rarely be
> noticed by the average developer since most of the
> restrictions imposed on
> types by RMI-IIOP are already required by Java
> RMI-JRMP.
>
> What this means is that your remote and home
> interfaces have to look and behave
> like they are using RMI-IIOP but the vendor can use
> any wire protocol they
> want. Apparently, this was done to make it simpler
> for customers and vendors to
> transition to RMI-IIOP when it becomes required.
> Right or wrong that how it
> works.
>
> Richard
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