RMI - startServer

[Sophie Siegel]

Hello all,
I'm programming for the UrlyBird assignment and at the moment I'm reading tutorials and so on about RMI because I don't use this before.

In the forum I saw this:

public interface BusinessModel {   
     public void methodA() throws BusinessException, RemoteException;   
     public void methodB() throws BusinessException, RemoteException;   
 }   
   
 public interface Server extends BusinessModel, Remote {   
     public void startServer();   
 }   
   
 public class LocalBusinessModel implements BusinessModel {   
     // implementations of methods here...   
 }   
   
 public class RemoteBusinessModel extends LocalBusinessModel implements Server {   
     // implementations of methods here...   
 }  

My program is similar to this but aktually only in locally mode.
What does "startServer" mean?

I'm new to RMI and thought it can mean something like this:

@Override
	public void startServer(String dbLocation, String port, JLabel status) throws RemoteException{
		LocateRegistry.createRegistry(Integer.parseInt(port));
		UrlyBirdRemoteModelImpl remoteModel = new UrlyBirdRemoteModelImpl();
		Server stub = (Server) UnicastRemoteObject.exportObject(remoteModel, 0);
		RemoteServer.setLog(System.out);
		
		Registry registry = LocateRegistry.getRegistry();
		registry.rebind("UrlyBird", stub);
	}

Is this right?

Thanks,
Jeani

[Roel De Nijs]

An interesting discussion about that method can be found here.