Shekar,
This was (until 5.0) a great deficiency in ND -- the dearth of non-Web
server access points. With ND4 and the CORBA based architecture, it is
certainly possible to use a standalone client. You could either a) wrap an
applet as a standalone Java application that uses the ND4 applet support or
b) "Roll your own" with the ND proxy classes [WARNING: trying this is not
for the faint of heart!]
However, with ND5 and EJB the situation is addressed very nicely. EJBs are
accessible from outside the web server (I believe the ND5 course has a
sample app.)
As to RMI: I think RMI is great. RMI is incredibly easy once you learn the
(fairly simple) ropes. Unfortunately, ND (4 or 5) doesn't directly support
RMI clients+. However, if an RMI server (or activatable in 1.2) is
required, you could create a RMI object that simply "wraps" the ND5 EJB*.
+This is my current understanding.
*Since the EJB access is just about as easy as the RMI access, the only
reason I see to do this would be that you can't use CORBA on the client
side.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gunaseharan, Shekar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 9:23 AM
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> Subject: [ND] client to appserver via rmi...
>
> One of our customers is evaluating between Weblogic, and ND. Their
> question is how to communicate with our server using RMI from a java
> client program (developed using non-nd environment)????
>
> I am not quite sure why one would want that. But they have done it with
> weblogic. So, we need to answer.
>
>
> Thanks
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