Dan Creswell wrote: > Gregg Wonderly wrote: > > A lot of > > people seem to have just made every object extends UnicastRemoteObject, or > used > > that class to export everything, instead of looking closer at granularity. > The > > other falling off point is serialVersionUID and versioning overall. > > > > There's one other issue which is that RMI, in many circles translates to > RMI-IIOP _not_ RMI-JRMP. > > These leads to all sorts of confusion given that RMI-IIOP is horribly > botched typically with no code-downloading support etc. > > Basically, most people who _think_ they've been using RMI have been > using the hobbled, offspring of original RMI (JRMP).
Humm, I'd consider this the CORBA-crowd users. Perhaps the perspective you point out is the one that I'm not recognizing as the important perspective that people are basing their bad experiences on. You are right that the RMI-IIOP stuff is pretty horrible. It's definately a very limited view of what the RMI programming model has to offer for Java applications. Gregg Wonderly
