As you know, we need to do some re-organization of code in preparation
for the jdk build generating modules. One dependency that I would like
to separate out is the dependency on RMI-IIOP and CORBA in the JSR-160
implementation. The motivation is a possible "management" module that
wouldn't require "corba" to be installed. The webrev with the proposed
changes is here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/6888179/webrev.00/
In summary, the RMI connectors are changed to use a helper class for
RMI-IIOP and CORBA. The methods defined by the helper class have all
CORBA types erased and they simply delegate to a proxy which has an
implementation in the com.sun.jmx.remote.protocol.iiop package that is
either present or not present. When not present then methods requiring
the transport fail gracefully indicating that the iiop protocol is not
supported.
I ran into two issues that I should point:
1. The bytecode for ProxyStub._releaseReply in RMIConnector didn't match
the source in the comments. The actual code has a null check that was
missing from the source. I've updated this for any future maintainers.
2. RMIConnector.findRMIServerJRMP used PortableRemoteObject.narrow to
check the stub type, which I'm sure was an oversight.
I've run all the tests in test/javax/management/remote (good test
coverage btw) and don't see any regressions.
Éamonn, Daniel - would you have cycles to review?
-Alan.
