Re: Implementation of take (multiple) in Jini starter kit

Gregg Wonderly wrote:
> John McClain - Sun Microsystems, Inc. wrote:
>> Having said all that, for me the main motivation for the phrase "an
>> implementation may chose to take fewer entries from the space than the
>> maximum available or the maximum allowed by maxEntries" was so the space
>> could protect itself from have to load all the entries into memory so it
>> could ship them back to the client...
>
> John, given the use of a smart proxy, and a streaming connection from
> the server to the client, it would be possible for the server to load
> a small  number at a time, and then write those batches through the
> stream to the client, where the client iterator could make these
> small groups look like one batch could it not?

Yes (though I am guessing you have to be careful about how you mark the
entries as removed...), but I didn't want to require such an
implementation since it would make using most (any?) off the shelf RPC
implementation imposable (maybe only difficult, you could always do
multiple RPC calls under the covers I suppose).

Having said that it might be really nice to have an RPC implementation
that did give you access to the streams.....

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