>-----Original Message-----
>G'day,
>
>I've got a slight problem - does anyone have any
>suggestions?
>
>I have a server with a few potentially long-lived
clients.
>Each client maintains a large number of long-term
>references to MBR objects on the server. I therefore
need
>to implement an ISponsor object on the server that will
>keep the server object's lease current until all client
>references are garbage collected.
>
>I figure I can do this by hooking the creation of the
real
>proxy object and then maintaining a (client-side) lookup
>table of weak references to the real proxy objects. The
>list of valid references can periodically be transmitted
>to the sponsor on the server.
>
>This is essentially what the internal framework class
>IdentityHolder is doing when it maintains a table of weak
>references to Identity objects which references (is
>referenced by) the real proxy object.
>
>This approach has the downside of requiring me to change
>all of my MBR objects to inherit from ContextBoundObject,
>since ProxyAttribute can't be applied to objects derived
>directly from MarshalByRefObject.
>
>Does anybody know any way of obtaining/maintaining a list
>of active proxy objects on the client-side?
>
>Thanks
>
>Tim
>
>
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