Activation port - API comments

[this is really for Peter J.]

The 'rmid' can be started with a port other than 1098, and this has its uses. However the implementation of this feature in the API is incomplete:

(1) No ActivationGroup.getSystem(int port) method is provided. You can get around this with a Naming.lookup().

(2) No Activatable.register() method is provided taking a port number argument. Again you can get around this by using ActivationSystem.registerObject(), using an ActivationSystem obtained via Naming.lookup(), but you then have to turn the ActivationID into a stub and the only way of doing this without using sun.rmi code is to call ActivationID.activate(), which of course has the possibly unwanted side-effect of activating the object being registered.

In summary what seems to be required is the addition of

    ActivationGroup.getSystem(int port);

and

    Activatable.register(ActivationDesc desc, int port);

For comment before I parade this as an RFE.

Esmond Pitt
author 'java.rmi' http://www.rmiproxy.com/javarmi

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