com.rmiproxy.registry
Interface ProxyRegistry

All Superinterfaces:

java.rmi.registry.Registry, java.rmi.Remote

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractProxyRegistry

public interface ProxyRegistry

extends java.rmi.registry.Registry

ProxyRegistry defines the remote interface to the proxy server. The interface is nothing more than the Registry interface plus the Naming.list(String) method. Consider that a client can only obtain an initial RMI reference via a naming service, which may have to be accessed via one or more proxies. Any RMI reference returned by the proxy, including this one, is swizzled into a reference to the proxy. Any RMI reference passed to the proxy by the client is similarly swizzled into a reference to the proxy (for callbacks). Now consider a server; it binds itself to the local Registry. If these are executing behind a firewall there will be one or more proxies intervening, so the bind is exported to the proxy nearest. This goes through all the same processes as above, with the result that the server now appears to be running in the proxy. If the server returns a reference to another remote object, that object also gets proxied, etcetera ad infinitum.

Inner Class Summary

static interface

ProxyRegistry.ProxyLister

Fields inherited from interface java.rmi.registry.Registry

REGISTRY_PORT

Methods inherited from interface java.rmi.registry.Registry

bind, list, lookup, rebind, unbind