RMI classloading

[gianny . damour]

Hi,

I would like to know if it would be helpful to have a RMI class server.

Currently, I see two potential usage:
* deployment: currently, we need to be carefull about the exceptions nested 
within
DeploymentException otherwise we will get a ClassNotFoundException. As a matter 
of
fact, by installing a security manager and with the correct policy file, local
deployments work properly. Indeed, as the ClassLoader used under the cover by
Configuration is a URLClassLoader, marshalled classes are properly annotated.
* IIOP: here I guess that we will need to download the stubs somehow to the 
clients.

If you think that this is a good thing to have, then I am happy to get it 
working.

Thanks,
Gianny

Re: RMI classloading

[Alan D. Cabrera]

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Hi,
I would like to know if it would be helpful to have a RMI class server.
Currently, I see two potential usage:
* deployment: currently, we need to be carefull about the exceptions nested 
within
DeploymentException otherwise we will get a ClassNotFoundException. As a matter 
of
fact, by installing a security manager and with the correct policy file, local
deployments work properly. Indeed, as the ClassLoader used under the cover by
Configuration is a URLClassLoader, marshalled classes are properly annotated.
* IIOP: here I guess that we will need to download the stubs somehow to the 
clients.
If you think that this is a good thing to have, then I am happy to get it 
working
That sounds pretty cool. What do you think Mark?
Regards,
Alan

RE: RMI classloading

[Bordet, Simone]

Hi, 

 Hi,
 
 I would like to know if it would be helpful to have a RMI 
 class server.
 
 Currently, I see two potential usage:
 * deployment: currently, we need to be carefull about the 
 exceptions nested within DeploymentException otherwise we 
 will get a ClassNotFoundException. As a matter of fact, by 
 installing a security manager and with the correct policy 
 file, local deployments work properly. Indeed, as the 
 ClassLoader used under the cover by Configuration is a 
 URLClassLoader, marshalled classes are properly annotated.
 * IIOP: here I guess that we will need to download the stubs 
 somehow to the clients.
 
 If you think that this is a good thing to have, then I am 
 happy to get it working.

Just some warning here:
1. beware of the fact that classes may be exploded from jars in directories 
and pick up the correct place, if explosion happens
2. the annotation can be incredibly long, especially compared with data sent 
across a remote call, thus slowing down everything a lot. I would let an option 
to not use annotation for best performance, or a use a tinyurl mechanism of 
some sort.

All the rest is to get annotations right, which is non-trivial but interesting 
:)
Have fun !

Regards,

Simon