Marc San Soucie wrote:
> Richard Monson-Haefel wrote:
>
> > IMHO, as long as the vendors follow the RMI/IIOP specification they can
> > implement it anyway the want, which means they can opt to support transaction
> > and security context passing even know the reference implementation provided by
> > Sun/IBM does not.
>
> The key is that there is no "official" version. The fact that Sun (with
> partners) is producing a "reference implementation" in no way obligates
> anyone to make use of that reference implementation. Some vendors will use
> what they've produced, some will extend it, some will ignore it in favor of
> their own implementations.
>
> The only official thing is the specification, to which all implementations
> should conform.
>
True. Except now the the client view must conform to valid RMI/IIOP types with regard
to Interface definitions and argument types.
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