Support Services
RMI daemon
- Sun comes in two flavours in JDK1.2: the original UnicastRemoteObject
and the newer Activable class.
- UnicastRemoteObject requires a process to remain alive and
running,
- Activable objects can be stored in a passive state and the Activation
system will create a new JVM if needed when a method call is made on the
object. While passive, an activatable object will need to be stored on
some server, and this server must be one which can accept method calls and
activate the objects. Sun supply such a server, called rmid.