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| author | Audrius Meskauskas <audriusa@Bioinformatics.org> | 2006-03-12 16:34:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Audrius Meskauskas <audriusa@Bioinformatics.org> | 2006-03-12 16:34:26 +0000 |
| commit | 4512141db58f806fc1f955fddf7f0a81a8f2e4ca (patch) | |
| tree | 3fbe49741a9e46ddb52a552f805ac174a16ed4c9 /java/rmi/activation/package.html | |
| parent | cd778749b76bfc3306376ec6d0b96f4afed4ecee (diff) | |
| download | classpath-4512141db58f806fc1f955fddf7f0a81a8f2e4ca.tar.gz | |
2006-03-12 Audrius Meskauskas <AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org>
* java/rmi/activation/ActivationID.java (uid): New field.
(writeExternal, readExternal): New methods.
(equals, hashCode): Rewritten.
* java/rmi/activation/ActivationInstantiator.java,
* java/rmi/activation/ActivationSystem.java,
* java/rmi/activation/Activator.java,
* java/rmi/activation/Activatable.java,
* java/rmi/activation/ActivationGroup.java,
* java/rmi/activation/ActivationGroupDesc.java:
Documented and autoformatted.
* java/rmi/activation/package.html: Added content.
Diffstat (limited to 'java/rmi/activation/package.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | java/rmi/activation/package.html | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/java/rmi/activation/package.html b/java/rmi/activation/package.html index 444782dd7..24e02f88b 100644 --- a/java/rmi/activation/package.html +++ b/java/rmi/activation/package.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!-- package.html - describes classes in java.rmi.activation package. - Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. @@ -40,7 +40,27 @@ exception statement from your version. --> <head><title>GNU Classpath - java.rmi.activation</title></head> <body> -<p></p> +In the previous Classpath releases, an instance of a UnicastRemoteObject +could be accessed from a server that: +<ul> +<li>has created an instance of that object<li> +<li>has been running <i>all<i> the time</li> +</ul> +Since the comming of the activation system, the object implementation can also +be activated and executed on demand rather than running all time. The RMI client +code for activatable objects is no different than the code for accessing +non-activatable remote objects. Activation is a server-side implementation +decision. +In order for an object to be activated, the "activatable" object class +(independently if it extends the {@link Activatable} class or not) defines a +special public constructor that takes two arguments, its activation identifier +({@link ActivationID}) and its activation data ({@link java.rmi.MarshalledObject}), +supplied in the activation descriptor used during registration. When an +activation group activates a remote object, it constructs the object via +this special constructor. The remote object implementation may use the +activation data to initialize itself in a needed manner. The remote object may +also retain its activation identifier, so that it can inform the activation +group when it becomes inactive (via a call to the Activatable.inactive method). </body> </html> |