Re: [Bodington-developers] Removal of RMI depedancy

[Alexis O'C. <ale...@ou...>]

Matthew Buckett wrote:
> I have had a quick look at removing the dependancy on RMI throughout the 
> bodington code and have an initial attempt. Reasons for removing it include:
> 
> - It is not used. Nowhere do we use the features of RMI.
> - It clutters up the APIs as all our methods throw RemoteException.
> - RemoteExceptions are just ignored when people write code.
> - It speeds up the build, the rmic task is the slowest bit of the build.
> - It allows project rebuilds by IDEs (eclipse) without needing ant.
> - If we needed it again adding it back in is simple.
> 
> Comments?
> 

Yep, I'd vote for removing it, to create more maintainable, easier to read code.

If we were to add it back again, then most likely this is because we were going to use it 
as intended, i.e. remotely ;-).

Alexis