RMI Timeout Question

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I'm designing a corporate application that will have an applets talking toremote RMI objects. The frequency of their "conversation" will depend onthe user's input, therefore I may have periods of silence longer than 10minutes. As far as I understand that will cause me to loose my RMIconnection/reference to the my remote RMI object.Is there any way to avoid that? Would it be a good idea to implement adummy ping() method on the remote object and have a thread on the appletpinging it every 5 minutes or so?Thanks & regards,Fabio