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Not in the short term. But as 170 is a standard, RMI implementation layers will appear (I think JackRabbit has one) which could be hosted on top our local interface. The only thing to consider is performance - 170 is a chatty interface, so the RMI implementation needs to be carefully map 170 interface calls to underlying RMI calls.