uka.karmi.rmi
Class ExecutionThread

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      uka.karmi.rmi.ExecutionThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

Direct Known Subclasses:

StreamServer

public abstract class ExecutionThread

extends java.lang.Thread

Base class for all threads that execute remote methods on the server. Technology implementations must subclass this class and implement an appropriate service() method that unmarshals an technology-dependant invocation header from a connection and invokes ServerConnection.dispatch().

Author:

Bernhard Haumacher, Christian Nester

See Also:

StreamServer.service(uka.karmi.stream.StreamServerConnection), ServerConnection.dispatch(boolean)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

ExecutionThread()

Method Summary

abstract java.lang.String

getClientHost() Returns the remote caller's host name.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getContextClassLoader, getName, getPriority, getThreadGroup, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, run, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setName, setPriority, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ExecutionThread

public ExecutionThread()

Method Detail

getClientHost

public abstract java.lang.String getClientHost()

Returns the remote caller's host name. A remote method is executed by an ExecutionThread. If the runtime system calls the getClientHost() method the implementation of ExecutionThread must return the host name of the remote caller of the currently executed remote method.

Returns:

host name of the caller