[436] in java-interest
Re: Java Objects over the Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Payne)
Wed Jun 21 17:39:52 1995
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 14:22:26 -0700
From: jpayne@starwave.com (Jonathan Payne)
To: gzoller@imonics.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9506212035.AA07038@antioch.imonics.com> (message from Gregory Zoller - Imonics Development on Wed, 21 Jun 1995 16:35:59 -0400)
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> Someone earlier posted their idea that Java should be able to port
> objects over the network.
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> I second that motion as a feature request.
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> I think it would be very handy to be able to take an object, wrap
> in some Network wrapper object, and send it to a waiting Java client.
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> Since Java is interpreted, would it be terribly difficult to send
> an object's bytecodes (and data) over the net?
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> Greg
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It's not hard to do this, but it's hard to do it in the middle of an
instruction (or even all the way through an instruction). The
execution context, including open file descriptors, net connections,
any other threads it depends on, etc. - well, try moving all that to
another machine.
No, I don't think so.
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