Rmid activation fails if rmi codebase host down.

Question

Dear activation/rmid gurus.
I have trouble with rmid activation when the host storing the codebase is down. I understand that it can't activate as long as the codebase host is down but should'nt rmid keep trying in regular intervals in case the codebase host appears.
Imagine a restart of a rmid host machine have the codebase on a local webserver (on the same host). If the rmid service is started before the webserver is up and running the activation system will not start correctly. In this case its pretty easy to fix the codebase host dependency by making sure the webserver is started before the rmi service.
Its more troublesome when the codebase is located on another host on the network. If the machines goes down, e.g. due to a powerfailure, and the rmid host machine restarts faster than the codebase host the activatable object will be out of business.
Is there some way to ensure that the rmid deamon keep trying activation its activatable objects?
\Magnus

Answer 1

After some tests I finally got it working...
It appears as as the java.rmi.server.hostname property needs to be set on the java interpreter running rmid. This is achieved by passing
-J-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=yoda as argument to rmid.
\Magnus