[zhangbb]

I was wondering whether there are any restrictions on the use of Objects passed between processes via ApplicationManager.postGlobalEvent or the RuntimeStore.

On the device I have a GUI application that interacts with the user and a daemon application that the GUI application calls to perform tasks. I would like to be able to pass a callback interface from the daemon application to the GUI application. So in a shared library I might have a DaemonServices callback interface:

public interface DaemonServices {
    public long executeTask1();
    public long executeTask2();
    public int getStatus(long taskID);
    ...
}

The daemon would pass an instance of this interface to the GUI application:

DaemonServices daemonCallback = new DaemonServicesImpl();
appMgr.postGlobalEvent(guiPid, EnumEvents.REGISTER_CALLBACK_EVENT, 0, 0, daemonCallback, null);

The GUI application would receive the callback interface, and could then use it to execute tasks in the daemon:

private DaemonServices _daemonCallback;

private class GUIGlobalEventListener implements GlobalEventListener {
    public void eventOccurred(long guid, int data0, int data1, Object object0, Object object1) {
        if (guid == EnumEvents.REGISTER_CALLBACK_EVENT) {
            _daemonCallback = object0;
        }
    }
}
....
private void someInternalMethod() {
    long taskID = _daemonCallback.executeTask1();
    ...
}

The methods on DaemonServices would be non-blocking. For example, executeTask1() would simply cause a task to be queued for a daemon thread to execute later. Also, the daemon application would be a system application that is started when the device starts up, so it would always be alive when the GUI tries to communicate with it.

This model (having a thread in one application perform operations in another application) seems to violate process isolation somewhat, but the RIM API clearly supports it. Am I safe in using this model as long as I'm careful about how I implement the DaemonServices operations? Are there any other problems I could run into--for example, if the device was shutting down and the daemon application terminated before the GUI application?

Thanks...