Re: Services and packaging dependencies
Gregg Wonderly <[email protected]>
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Patrick Wright wrote: > Mark, Gregg: Thanks to both of you for the reply, very helpful to know > we aren't that far off in our approach. > > I have a follow-up question--do you suggest the same strategy when > using a third-party library where a method returns an instance of a > class which is not final? It seems that unless you're sure you know > what the possible subclasses are, you either have to risk it, or else > make sure the service API uses only classes you control (what it does > internally is another issue). Any thoughts on that? I don't think there's anything magic you can do here. The classes sent across the wire, have to be resolved. I've historically only needed/implemented transport of classes which are my own. Sometimes I marshall data from other, 3rd party classes into my own for transport. Gregg Wonderly -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started Community Web Site: http://jini.org jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to [email protected]