Package java.rmi.activation

Provides support for RMI Object Activation. A remote object's reference can be made ``persistent'' and later activated into a ``live'' object using the RMI activation mechanism.

Implementations are not required to support the activation mechanism. If activation is not supported by this implementation, several specific activation API methods are all required to throw UnsupportedOperationException. If activation is supported by this implementation, these methods must never throw UnsupportedOperationException. These methods are denoted by the presence of an entry for UnsupportedOperationException in the Throws section of each method's specification.

Since:: 1.2

Interface Summary
Interface	Description
ActivationInstantiator	An `ActivationInstantiator` is responsible for creating instances of "activatable" objects.
ActivationMonitor	An `ActivationMonitor` is specific to an `ActivationGroup` and is obtained when a group is reported active via a call to `ActivationSystem.activeGroup` (this is done internally).
ActivationSystem	The `ActivationSystem` provides a means for registering groups and "activatable" objects to be activated within those groups.
Activator	The `Activator` facilitates remote object activation.

Class Summary
Class	Description
Activatable	The `Activatable` class provides support for remote objects that require persistent access over time and that can be activated by the system.
ActivationDesc	An activation descriptor contains the information necessary to activate an object: the object's group identifier, the object's fully-qualified class name, the object's code location (the location of the class), a codebase URL path, the object's restart "mode", and, a "marshalled" object that can contain object specific initialization data.
ActivationGroup	An `ActivationGroup` is responsible for creating new instances of "activatable" objects in its group, informing its `ActivationMonitor` when either: its object's become active or inactive, or the group as a whole becomes inactive.
ActivationGroup_Stub	`ActivationGroup_Stub` is a stub class for the subclasses of `java.rmi.activation.ActivationGroup` that are exported as a `java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject`.
ActivationGroupDesc	An activation group descriptor contains the information necessary to create/recreate an activation group in which to activate objects.
ActivationGroupDesc.CommandEnvironment	Startup options for ActivationGroup implementations.
ActivationGroupID	The identifier for a registered activation group serves several purposes: identifies the group uniquely within the activation system, and contains a reference to the group's activation system so that the group can contact its activation system when necessary.
ActivationID	Activation makes use of special identifiers to denote remote objects that can be activated over time.

Exception Summary
Exception	Description
ActivateFailedException	This exception is thrown by the RMI runtime when activation fails during a remote call to an activatable object.
ActivationException	General exception used by the activation interfaces.
UnknownGroupException	An `UnknownGroupException` is thrown by methods of classes and interfaces in the `java.rmi.activation` package when the `ActivationGroupID` parameter to the method is determined to be invalid, i.e., not known by the `ActivationSystem`.
UnknownObjectException	An `UnknownObjectException` is thrown by methods of classes and interfaces in the `java.rmi.activation` package when the `ActivationID` parameter to the method is determined to be invalid.