I think the better idea would be a servlet firing off a mobile object to go
perform some request. Usually this doesn't work out *too* well, though,
because the servlet either needs to maintain state between HTTP requests, or
else hold the HTTP request open while the mobile object "does its thing",
and that usually takes longer than just making a standard distributed-object
(RMI, CORBA, socket, whatever) call.
I haven't read the article, though, so I'm unfamiliar with what they're
advocating.
Ted Neward
Patterns/C++/Java/CORBA/EJB/COM-DCOM spoken here
http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward
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-----Original Message-----
From: Moiz Mehmood Hussain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 5:20 AM
Subject: Servlets as Mobile Agents
>Hi
>I read about this in JAVA Developers Journal but cannot really imagine a
>servlet acting as a mobile agent. A servlet, to me, seems like a server
side
>application or rather an object which services requests recieved from
>clients, which may be http clients. How does one add the functionality of
>moving about on different hosts to a servlet which is probably the basic
>functionality of a mobile agent? any comments ?
>
>Regards
>Moiz
>Pakistan
>
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