Re: Help with java.rmi.server.codebase

Bob Scheifler wrote:
>> 1. The system property java.rmi.server.codebase is not the codebase to
>> be used
>> by the RMI "server side" to load any classes. It is ONLY used to
>> annotate the
>> MarshalledObject (the data stream that is sent between the hosts) with
>> information of where the classes can be found.
>
>
> In the interests of precision, the above is not quite correct.
> A quirk of JRMP (not inherited by JERI) is that classes in an
> incoming remote call that don't have annotations can in fact
> be loaded on the server side from the server's codebase URLs.
> But it's not something I would recommend depending on.

Wow, that's an interesting side effect.  Is this a factor of what classloader is
active, or code that deliberately tries the codebase classloader's content as a
failover or otherwise?

Gregg Wonderly

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