Replace RemoteException with IOException

[Peter Firmstone]

Hi,

I've been having some thoughts about what Chris said about using 
IOException where possible for clients using non remote classes and 
interfaces, instead of RemoteException.

We have plenty of methods that declare they throw RemoteException, we 
could change them to declare throws IOException, without breaking binary 
compatibility as it doesn't change the method signature.  We can 
continue throwing a RemoteException, but just change the declaration, so 
clients using non remote interfaces and classes can catch an 
IOException, without needing to create any dependency on 
java.rmi.RemoteException.

Thoughts?

Peter.