Core Java, Volume II--Advanced Features, 9th Edition

Chapter 11. Distributed Objects

In this chapter

• The Roles of Client and Server

• Remote Method Calls

• The RMI Programming Model

• Parameters and Return Values in Remote Methods

• Remote Object Activation

Periodically, the programming community starts thinking that the solution to all its problems is “objects everywhere.” The idea is to have a happy family of collaborating objects that can be located anywhere. When an object on one computer needs to invoke a method on an object on another computer, it sends a network message that contains the details of the request. The remote object computes a response, perhaps by accessing a database or by communicating with additional objects. Once the remote object has the answer to the client request, ...