JBoss Remoting

Various modes of interaction, including invocations, one way messaging, and asynchronous callbacks are supported.

There are two generations of Remoting in active use.

Remoting 2 is currently used in various versions of JBoss Application Server 4 and 5, as well as a variety of standalone projects.

Remoting 3 is the next generation of Remoting.  It will support a variety of modules in JBoss Application Server 6.

What is new in this release:

• Bug:
• [JBREM-1198] - Determining whether to use SSL is clunky
• [JBREM-1200] - Rescanning for SASL providers on every connection in or out
• [JBREM-1201] - RequestListener.handleClose is redundant
• [JBREM-1206] - Address asymmetry between local & remote request & reply handlers
• Feature Request:
• [JBREM-1080] - Add support for future tasks to RequestContext
• [JBREM-1202] - Allow realm specification in connect URI
• [JBREM-1205] - Provide a way for the client to specify an unmarshalling classloader for a request
• Task:
• [JBREM-1195] - Support SASL EXTERNAL mechanism
• [JBREM-1199] - Add marshaller version to negotiation phase
• [JBREM-1203] - Streams via "remote"
• [JBREM-1204] - Change the artifactId
• [JBREM-1207] - Pass-by-value on "local:" protocol
• [JBREM-1208] - Remote client listener does not receive service open options

What is new in version 2.5.2.SP3:

• Feature Request:
• [ JBREM-1179 ] jboss-remoting.jar should log a version message when it is loaded
• Bug:
• [ JBREM-1180 ] Formally reject hostnames which don't conform to RFC-952
• [ JBREM-1181 ] Fix NPE in SSLSocketBuilder
• [ JBREM-1183 ] ServerThread should catch java.lang.Error
• [ JBREM-1184 ] Fix NPE in ClassByteClassLoader.addClass()
• [ JBREM-1185 ] Change use of == to String.equals() in SSLSocketBuilder.validateStoreURL()
• [ JBREM-1188 ] Socket transport doesn't set "timeout" to default value
• [ JBREM-1218 ] ConnectionValidator.isValid should be volatile
• [ JBREM-1225 ] Eliminate extraneous "=" from reconstructed InvokerLocator
• Task:
• [ JBREM-1220 ] Update jars to match EAP 5.1.0
• [ JBREM-1222 ] Assure version compatibility with earlier versions of Remoting