I'm guessing from Jonathan's recent comments on his blog, about Kodak
suing successfully for damages over RMI, that this impacted RMI
negatively, nothing has been done with RMI for a long time, I wonder
what the terms of the settlement were?
Cheers,
Peter.
Gregg Wonderly wrote:
What I would like to see is a mechanism for completely extracting the use of
the java.rmi package use into an SPI like mechanism. The ability to then plug
in some other details or more limited environments like those would be possible.
I don't know any details, but I suspect that some of the use of RMI stiff was
left over from the JSRs and maybe some was there as preparation for another
eventual JSR attempt.
In the end, RMI ended up not getting as much support, from the top brass and in
the Sun Developer Advisory Council meetings, I detected some personality
conflicts that were probably also a factor. Jonathan eliminated some of
those...
Gregg Wonderly
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