Sang Shin wrote:
>
> Sam wrote:
> >
> > I m not sure about this. Perhaps you can clarify this.
> >
> > What is the bigger picture.. of how clients use stubs ?
> >
> > The way I see it a stub can be distributed with a client and the client
> > can access the stub (as we do in RMI clients by doing something similar
> > to a lookup).
>
> According to the JAX-RPC spec, the stub gets generated
> during
> deployment time specific to a particular JAX-RPC runtime
> system. (One of the reasonings for this is not to
> impose the portability requirement to the stub.)
>
> Even in regular RMI, the recommended practice is to download
> the stub during runtime through something like RMI registry
> (or Jini lookup service) during runtime. So distributing
> a stub with a client is usually considered a bad practice.
>
(I am not working in JAX-RPC group. So these are my
personal interpretation of the spec.)
By the way, I did not mean to imply that in the case of
JAX-RPC,
the stub gets downloaded to the client during runtime. My
understanding is that the stub gets generated by the client
side JAX-RPC runtime system.
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