An
RMIClientSocketFactory
instance is used by the RMI runtime in order to obtain client sockets for RMI calls. A remote object can be associated with an
RMIClientSocketFactory
when it is created/exported via the constructors or
exportObject
methods of
java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject
and
java.rmi.activation.Activatable
.
An RMIClientSocketFactory
instance associated with a remote object will be downloaded to clients when the remote object's reference is transmitted in an RMI call. This RMIClientSocketFactory
will be used to create connections to the remote object for remote method calls.
An RMIClientSocketFactory
instance can also be associated with a remote object registry so that clients can use custom socket communication with a remote object registry.
An implementation of this interface should be serializable and should implement {@link Object#equals} to return true
whenpassed an instance that represents the same (functionally equivalent) client socket factory, and false
otherwise (and it should also implement {@link Object#hashCode} consistently with itsObject.equals
implementation).
@version 1.12, 11/17/05
@author Ann Wollrath
@author Peter Jones
@since 1.2
@see java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject
@see java.rmi.activation.Activatable
@see java.rmi.registry.LocateRegistry