Export once, deserialize on subsequent restarts

Ok, this should be simple to do but I can't seem to figure it out. 

NOTE: I do not want to use RMID, ActivatableRef, or JINI.

All I want to do is export a stub for a server the first time it starts,
send that server's stub to a client, and have that client can keep a
persistent reference to it. Serializing the stub is easy on the client
side. It's the serialization on the server side that is tricky since I
don't know how to deserialize it in a way that it gets the same object
table id.

So to restate, what I can't figure out how to do (without RMID
activation stuff) is to generate a stub once, serialize it locally, and
then on subsequent restarts, use the same serialized stub so that it
always has the same id in the object table. I see RemoteProxy.getStub
takes an ID as a parameter, but it is in sun.rmi.*, is this class
present on all JVM implementations? Am I on the right track?

R.

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