Re: Java with RMI on Alpha?

[Jeff Sturm <jsturm gatecom com>]

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> I have a program that makes extensive use of RMI.  On my Intel Linux machine
> at work, it works fine.  It even works on Windows NT.  But on Alpha Linux it
> doesn't seem to make a connection between the client and the server.  Is
> anybody else doing RMI successfully using Java on Alpha?

I had tried RMI once with one of Uncle George's earlier builds (around 
March I think).  It worked as expected IIRC.  The only "magic" that RMI 
needs is java.net and object serialization... chances are if both of 
those are working properly then so will RMI.

The most frequent problem I see using RMI in general is that it can't 
guess the name of the local host properly (using 
InetAddress.getLocalHost()).  So I override it by specifying the 
java.rmi.server.hostname property on the server command line.  Maybe that 
will help you.  What are your symptoms?  Is RMI throwing exceptions?

> I'm currently using:
> java version "gat:05/12/98-02:14"
> because although I have the later version (and I'm even serving it as an FTP
> site) I haven't yet determined if it will work on my old UDB (because "Uncle
> George" compiled it with -m21164).

Actually he used -m21164a I believe, and I don't expect it to work on a 
UDB.  Too bad Uncle George doesn't have disk space for multiple builds...

Jeff