17.9. RMI: Remote Method Invocation
Java directly supports distributing run-time objects across multiple computers through Remote Method Invocation (RMI). This distributed-objects package simplifies communication among Java applications on multiple machines. If you are already familiar with the Common Object Request Broker Architecture, think of RMI as a simpler but less powerful variation of CORBA that only works with Java systems. If you don't know anything about CORBA, think of RMI as an object-oriented version of remote procedure calls (RPC).
The idea is that the client requests an object from the server, using a simple high-level request. Once the client has the object, the client invokes the object's methods as though the object were a ...
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