Windchill's RMI capability

[RavinKayasth]

Dear Gurus',

Just had a doubt, so wanted the comments from experts.
In the documentation it says "RMI Bootstrap Registry: Windchill Java
clients use Java RMI to communicate with Windchill servers. To use RMI,
a client must first obtain a reference to a remote object on which it
can invoke methods"

According to this, RMI is required for Windchill. Hence Windchill can
only work if RMI port is enabled.
This limits the use of Windchill over internet where only http port is
available and RMI port is generally blocked.

Please provide expert comments on the same.

Rgds,
Ravin

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[pyalavarthi]

Hi Ravin,

You have to enable RMI tunneling as described in the following TPI

> clients use Java RMI to communicate with Windchill servers. To use RMI,
> a client must first obtain a reference to a remote object on which it
> can invoke methods"
>
> According to this, RMI is required for Windchill. Hence Windchill can
> only work if RMI port is enabled.
> This limits the use of Win...

[RavinKayasth]

That's right, Prathap, but would it serve the purpose, if the RMI ports
are blocked?

Thanks,
Ravin

[pyalavarthi]

Yes. With the RMI tunneling enabled, the web server will forward the RMI
requests to RMI server. So only http/https ports needs to be open.
In Windchill, JavaRMIServlet will do that RMI request forwarding.

wt.rmi.javarmicgi=/Windchill/servlet/JavaRMIServlet

Thanks,
Prathap