Re: RMI Activation lifecycle (binding to the rmiregistry)

Johannes

The theory of RMI Activation is that you don't use the Registry at all. You
serialize the stub which results from activateObject when doing the setup,
and your clients just use that directly.

Otherwise you get into a chicken and egg problem: the activable objects need
to register themselves in the Registry when they start in order to be found,
but they won't get started until they are called via a stub, i.e. they have
already been found.

Another possibility is to have the stubs serialized at the server side only
and add a startup process to register these stubs into the Registry before
clients start.

EJP

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