On 7/9/12 5:04 PM, Darryl Mocek wrote:
I originally had getUnusedRandomPort/createRegistry(randomPort), but Alan felt LocateRegistry.createRegistry(0) is a better choice. getUnusedRandomPort creates a socket to ensure the port is available, then closes it and returns the port number. It's possible (though unlikely) that another process will grab the port after closing and before createRegistry(randomPort) executes. LocateRegistry.createRegistry(0) ensures the registry is started on a random port.
Either call getUnusedRandomPort, which opens and closes a socket redundantly (with the possible risk of somebody else stealing it before the caller reopens it); or call createRegistry(0) which (probably) doesn't close and reopen, but which throws an exception you have to deal with if a registry is already running in this JVM. The latter is also fairly unlikely but it does occur at least once in the test suite. Seems to me like six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Do whichever you feel makes more sense. s'marks
