question on RMI..

[henpat123]

Hi,
I was reading about JAVA RMI Programming on the web and did not understand what the following statement means:
"The only practical advantage of inheriting from java.rmi.sever.UnicastRemoteObject is that it will preserve the usual semantics of the methods hashCode(), equals() and toString() in a distributed environment."

Can someone elaborate a little more.

henry

 

[sedj]

I think you have probably taken that quote out of context. Read more on RMI, and you'll understand.

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[henpat123]

sedj,
here is the entire context link from where I was reading..

http://www.cs.auc.dk/~kleist/Courses/ds-e01/Java_RMI_Tutorial/

can someone explain now why java.rmi.sever.UnicastRemoteObject is used for?

henry

 

[sedj]

Its the easiest way to make a class RMI-compliant - read the docs - it explains :

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/rmi/server/UnicastRemoteObject.html

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