Auto-starting RMI Servers with Activation
By default, RMI applications require a remote object to be running in order to accept connections from client applications. If a client application were to attempt to connect to a remote object server that was not running, it would fail.
RMI activation addresses this issue by providing a mechanism for starting remote objects as they are requested. This reduces the load on system resources that would be consumed by running a number of remote objects that were not being used consistently.
But RMI activation is not for all objects. Starting a remote object can take time and would slow the execution of the client program. For remote objects that are used often, starting the object server before it is used ...
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