Multiple codebase and inheritance

Hi, this is my first message to this mailing list.

I'm studying, in my thesis, the use of inheritance in distributed systems.
I've found some RMI-based technologies, like Jini and JavaSpaces, very
interesting for my work.

I've found the feature of dynamic class downloading in RMI (using
RMIClassloader in RMI internals, I think).

The question: suppose I have a codebase defined as

-Djava.rmi.server.codebase="http://site1/A/ http://site2/B/"

I have a client that, according to this codebase, downloads classes from A
and B.

The question: can a class x located in B have relationships with a class y
in A (x uses objects of y type)? In particular, can x extend y? Can the
RMIClassloader, in the client call, "resolve" an inheritance relationship
between remote locations?


Thanks, Andrea

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