On May 11, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Mandy Chung wrote: On 05/11/11 10:50, Kelly O'Hair wrote: >> On May 11, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: >>>> >>>> Q2: Does it belong somewhere other than the bin directory? >>>> >>> The script can be used to tunnel RMI calls over HTTP. Probably legacy now >>> and I'm pretty sure that java-rmi.cgi is just meant to be an example >>> script. The RMI FAQ provides servlet based example. I've cc'ed Peter Jones >>> and he might be able to fill us in a bit on the history and whether it >>> really needs to be in the bin directory (I suspect not). >>> >>> -Alan. >> >> Perhaps a separate CR should be filed for jdk8 or jdk9, maybe we could move >> or remove it then. >> > > There is an open CR related to this: > http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6512052 > > Mandy
Sorry for the late reply, I had fallen way behind on this email address. Yes, I agree that this script doesn't really belong in the JDK's bin directory, it's more of an (outdated) example. As described in the bug Mandy cited, there hasn't been a version in Windows releases since 1.1.x. -- Peter
