Re: Using JERI over the internet
Mark Brouwer <[email protected]>
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Gregg Wonderly wrote: > Nati Shalom wrote: >> Hi Mark >> >> "Could you tell more about the various constraints you are confronted >> with such as HTTP(S) only, whether the Jini servers are routable from >> the client perspective, etc." >> >> At this point there not too many constraints i.e. we can use standard >> http and handle our own authentication on top of that. >> >> WRT to callback that's another issue I came across the following >> reference which uses SSH tunneling: >> http://www.javaranch.com/newsletter/200311/Journal200311.jsp#a3 >> >> Have anyone tried it? >> >> It sounds simpler approach that can also handle callbacks if it works? > > Ultimately, this amounts to an endpoint implementation where the client > endpoint > and the server endpoint have a conversation through a single, > communications > socket which allows for the server to ask the client to make a new > connection. > > A predominate issue with this type of problem, is that the server will > end up > with many, idle socket connections from each client, which can create > resource > issues if not properly administrated. An issue will be how you can have asymmetric authentication/encryption in a secure tunnel, probably there is a better word to describe what I mean but I hope you get what I mean. Another issue is likely that codebase reachability is not solved by such an endpoint implementation. -- Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]