Re: Stub thread safety

> The RMI specification is silent on the question of whether RMI stubs
> are thread-safe *in the client*. Of course they are, and they would
> be in any useful implementation, but it's a curious omission from
> the specification. Is it deliberate? i.e. is it really envisaged to
> permit a non-thread-safe implementation of stubs?

No, it's not deliberate in the sense that non-thread-safe stubs are
intended to be considered conforming.  The silence on this point is
because the thread safety requirement of stub objects seems implicit.
I'd say that in general, Java objects with no externally-visible
mutable state are expected to be thread-safe unless specified
otherwise.

-- Peter

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