Jini™ Specifications, The, Second Edition

EM.3. The Semantics

To employ the event mailbox service, a client must first register with the event mailbox service by invoking the EventMailbox interface’s only method, register. Each invocation of the register method produces a new registration.

The register method may throw a RemoteException or a LeaseDeniedException. Typically, a RemoteException occurs when there is a communication failure between the client and the event mailbox service. If this exception does occur, the registration may or may not have been successful. A LeaseDeniedException is thrown if the event mailbox service is unable or unwilling to grant the registration request. It is implementation specific as to whether or not subsequent attempts (with or without the same argument) ...