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cvs commit: jakarta-avalon-excalibur/altrmi/src/xdocs index.xml
hammant 02/05/13 16:00:11
Modified: altrmi/src/xdocs index.xml
Log:
refactor mentions of EOB. Words originally stolen from EOB pages.
Revision Changes Path
1.5 +33 -12 jakarta-avalon-excalibur/altrmi/src/xdocs/index.xml
Index: index.xml
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retrieving revision 1.4
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diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- index.xml 5 Apr 2002 08:21:03 -0000 1.4
+++ index.xml 13 May 2002 23:00:11 -0000 1.5
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
<title>Excalibur AltRMI - Overview </title>
<authors>
<person name="Paul Hammant" email="Paul_Hammant@yahoo.com"/>
+ <person name="Vinay Chandran" email="vinayc77@yahoo.com"/>
</authors>
</header>
<body>
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@
RemoteException does). Many feel that allowing the bean developer to
ignore the robustness issues is a mistake. We think not given the following.
<ol>
- <li>The EOB Container knows about AltrmiInvocationException.</li>
+ <li>The container could be programmed to know about AltrmiInvocationException.</li>
<li>AltRMI has configurable policies that can help re-establish connection whilst in use.</li>
<li>Standard handling of RemoteException sucks.</li>
<li>It is difficult in EJB, in terms of coverage, to test your huge amounts of
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@
exceptions are already caught.</li>
</ol>
</p>
- <s2 title="1. The EOB Container knows about AltrmiInvocationException">
+ <s2 title="1. The container could be programmed to know about AltrmiInvocationException">
<p>
A lot of beans coding is 'bean invokes method in bean which invokes method in bean'. In
this case there are several places in the invocation stack where the container's logic
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@
re-establish the connection and complete the method invocation normally. A delay would of
course be encountered, but if administrators are watching the logs, then they can determine
where failures are happening and what to do long term about it. Programmed policies
- (configured in EOB) could be "try perpetually to reconnect", "try five times only,
+ (configured in the container) could be "try perpetually to reconnect", "try five times only,
one a second", "fail immediately".
</p>
</s2>
@@ -155,11 +156,8 @@
</p>
<s2 title="Callback">
<p>
- We have yet to implement callbacks. We need to make the communication
- asynchronous to do this. We have toyed with standard APIs like BEEP but
- find the performance is not quite good enough. We may not need the
- sustained power of BEEP as our needs are for short bursts rather than
- multiplexing sustained streams.
+ We have implemented an experimental callback structure. We have had to make the
+ communication asynchronous to do this.
</p>
</s2>
<s2 title="True dynamic creation of Proxies">
@@ -167,9 +165,32 @@
We curently use javac to compile stubs from source. It feels natuaral to use
this technique as we think in terms of the Java the language. We know that
the main interface to Javac is deprecated in JDK1.4 and feel we should move to
- some less static and more beanlike tool. An obvious choice would be BCEL, but we
- find it too hard to work with (it being closer to bytecode machine than the Java
- language).
+ some less static and more beanlike tool. An obvious choice would be BCEL and
+ we are working on an implementation.
+ </p>
+ </s2>
+ <s2 title="Secure Transports">
+ <p>
+ Some variations on the current transports to allow SSL connections.
+ </p>
+ </s2>
+ </s1>
+ <s1 title="External uses of AltRMI">
+ <s2 title="Transport package in Avalon-Cornerstone">
+ <p>
+ Allowing transparent publication of phoenix services and for phoenix services. See
+ <link href="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/cornerstone">Cornerstone</link>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Using that transport package are <link href="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/apps/apps/db">
+ AvalonDB</link> and <link href="http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/apps/apps/demo">Demos</link>
+ (both in Avalon-Apps).
+ </p>
+ </s2>
+ <s2 title="Enterprise Object Broker">
+ <p>
+ An EJB replacement, current hosted at <link href="http://eob.sourceforge.net">
+ SourceForge</link>
</p>
</s2>
</s1>
@@ -177,7 +198,7 @@
<footer>
<legal>
Copyright (c) @year@ The Jakarta Apache Project All rights reserved.
- $Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2002/04/05 08:21:03 $
+ $Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2002/05/13 23:00:11 $
</legal>
</footer>
</document>
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