RMI Activation Bug: test client hangs on RMI call to server - no exception

arthur.frechette@East 1998-07-22

System Under Test: Solaris 2.6
JDK: JDK-1.2fcs-B

Upon following the latest JDK1.2 Beta 4 activation tutorials I notice the
following problem:

Steps:

rmiregistry&
rmid&

I Create an ActivationDesc for CountServer object and register it with the
Activation system. Next I perform a Naming.rebing() to bind the stub
implementation to the registry. The program now exists after this. This is
so that when I run the test client below the activation system should re-activate this object for me.

I next run the test client which does a Naming.lookup() of the object bound
above in the registry. The client successfully gets the server reference so
it appears that the server object has been re-activated since a valid
server ref is returned. The client next proceeds to perform RMI calls to the
server. The test client appears
to hang at this point. No exception is thrown. Upon hitting CTRL_C and
restarting test client again it goes through the same procedure and
when it performs the RMI call this time it works.

This appears to be a bug the first time the object is activated not allowing
the RMI call to finish.

Spoke with Ann Wollrath on this. The bug appears to be related to I/O of
the socket connection to the RMI object. That is my guess but not really
sure.