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Re: Problems with RMI alpha2

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  • Subject: Re: Problems with RMI alpha2
  • Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:42:58 -0600
Hi Joe,

> Since I'm now a short timer here at JISAO, I've had some time to look at the
> new implementation of RMI, and there's a problem you should be aware of...
> 
> Sun, in its infinite wisdom, decided to make the latest implementation
> of RMI dependent on native code. This means that, at the moment, the
> RMI client will only run on machines that have RMI installed. This was
> *not* true for alpha1.  Even though RMI will be part of the next major
> JDK release, every Java vendor will have to create their own shareable
> libraries to support object serialization, so it might be quite awhile
> before Netscape, Internet Explorer, and all the Unix vendors will
> support RMI. Sigh.

Thanks for the information about this problem.  It looks like JDK 1.1
won't be available until at least December, so I'm going to concentrate
on finishing the Java netCDF package before doing much more with your
RMI implementation.

--Russ