Re: [Bodington-developers] Removal of RMI depedancy

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Peter Crowther wrote:
>> From: Matthew Buckett
>> 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.
> 
> Template compilation?

I turn that off and let it happen in the container when doing development.

>> - It allows project rebuilds by IDEs (eclipse) without needing ant.
>> - If we needed it again adding it back in is simple.
>>
>> Comments?
> 
> We either need a clean separation - awkward given the amount of database
> code now in facilities, I suspect - or we need to accept the merge. 

I'm not advocating removing the session layer, just its dependency on 
the RMI API. I'd like much cleaner separation but that is a bigger nut 
to crack.

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