What exactly is meant by the deactivation of a server object that was activated previously?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=66779 Created: Jun 7, 2000 Modified: 2000-06-07 11:41:54.291 Author: Avi Kak (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=26410) Although it could mean different things to different people, in my mind a reasonable definition of object deactivation is that 1) it should shut down the VM that was spawned by the activation system to activate the object; and 2) a client’s request for service from the object should automatically spawn the VM again if it was shut down by a previous deactivation request. That it is possible to mean different things by object deactivation is a result of the complexity of the “machinery” that has to be brought into existence in order for an object to become activatable. For a server object to be activatable, it has to have associated with it the following: • An activation group descriptor, of type ActivationGroupDesc, that contains the information necessary to create or recreate an activation group to which the objec
