Trying to get my head around this "distributable" thing....
In the Servlet 2.2 Spec., section 1.6, I read,
"An application marked as distributable must obey a few restrictions so
that containers that support distributable applications can implement
features such as clustering and failover."
And in section 9,
"When an application is marked as distributable, the Developer must obey a
more restrictive set of rules than is expected of a normal web application.
These specific rules are called out throughout this specification."
However, besides the numerous clarifications for container developers, the
only restrictions I could see clearly aimed at web application developers
were in section 4.3.1:
"Context attributes exist locally to the VM in which they were created and
placed. This prevents the ServletContext from being used as a distributed
shared memory store."
and section 7.7.2:
"In addition all objects placed into instances of the HttpSession class
using the setAttribute or putValue methods must implement the Serializable
interface."
Are these the extent of the restrictions on developers of distributed web
applications?
If not, would someone be able to detail the others for me or point me to a
place where I can find them summarised.
Thanks,
Graham Lea
Forge Research Pty Ltd
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