March 2007
Intermediate to advanced
712 pages
21h 53m
English
Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) are two central Java technologies that EJB 3 uses extensively under the hood. RMI is the technology that enables transparent Java native remote communication between EJB clients and beans. JNDI, on the other hand, enables a whole host of EJB functionality by acting as the central service registry for a Java EE container. One of the major enhancements in EJB 3, dependency injection (DI), is simply a wrapper over JNDI lookups.
In this appendix we offer a brief primer on both of these technologies, especially as they relate to EJB 3.
Java RMI made its debut very early in Java’s history. (also ...
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