Re: Rmi Client Crash

On Tuesday 29 March 2005 01:41, Steven M. Payeur wrote:
> You can set up callbacks to the client, though, can't you?  In this
> case, the server can abstract out the call to the callback function into
> its own thread.

yes, but effectively the 'client' is now the 'server' and vice versa, for that
call.

> Then the server can poll for results of the threaded
> object which is actually making the callback to the client.  Or maybe
> this threaded object will make its results available in a location which
> the server and the threaded object have access to.  No blocking, the
> server waits for 30 seconds.  If the threaded object doesn't return
> results in the specified amount of time, the client is deemed, at best,
> inactive.  At worst, disconnected.

Yes, possible, but experience shows that it is far from easy to make this in a
reliable manner, and tweaking is expected for each setup, due to network
issues.


Cheers
Niclas

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