Does iTest support the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) API ? I know that our implementation utilises JVM classes but didn't know if this extends to Java RMI. Can you confirm support and if so, what functionality is available and are there any constraints ? Does our decision to drop support on SUN Solaris have any impact here ?
I have a prospective customer looking at an automation environment that supports this API.
If you need to automate some small number of RMI calls you can create simple java application to do RMI (for example http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/rmi/client.html) and run it from iTest using CMD session.
iTest does not currently have any direct support for RMI. But it would be relatively easy to create an iTest application using the SDK that will talk to some remote device via RMI, since iTest itself is all Java and you build iTest apps using Java.
RMI is a protocol for invoking Java interfaces remotely. It is difficult to have a meaningful iTest app that deals with RMI generically because unless you know what kind of objects you are going to invoke, there is little to present as a UI.
The discontinuation of support for Solaris is completely unrelated to this question.
