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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
+<!-- package.html - describes classes in java.rmi.activation package.
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+
+<html>
+<head><title>GNU Classpath - java.rmi.activation</title></head>
+
+<body>
+In the previous Classpath releases, an instance of a UnicastRemoteObject
+could be accessed from a server that:
+<ul>
+<li>has created an instance of that object<li>
+<li>has been running <i>all<i> the time</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The the activation system allows to activate and execute the object
+implementation on demand rather than running all time. If the activation
+system is persistent, the server can be terminated and then restarted.
+The clients, still holding remote references to the server side 
+activatable objects, will activate those objects again. The server side
+objects will be reinstantiated (activated) during the first call of any
+remote method of such object.
+</p><p>
+The RMI client code for activatable objects is no different than the code for 
+accessing non-activatable remote objects. Activation is a server-side feature.
+</p><p>
+In order for an object to be activated, the "activatable" object class 
+(independently if it extends the {@link Activatable} class or not) defines a 
+special public constructor that takes two arguments, its activation identifier 
+({@link ActivationID}) and its activation data ({@link java.rmi.MarshalledObject}), 
+supplied in the activation descriptor used during registration. When an 
+activation group activates a remote object, it constructs the object via 
+this special constructor. The remote object implementation may use the 
+activation data to initialize itself in a needed manner. The remote object may
+also retain its activation identifier, so that it can inform the activation 
+group when it becomes inactive (via a call to the Activatable.inactive method).
+</p>
+@author Audrius Meskauskas (audriusa@bioinformatics.org) (from empty)
+</body>
+</html>