Chapter 15. Remote Method Invocation (RMI)
You don't need to see this chapter. These aren't the APIs you're looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.
I'll state it right up front: I'm not a fan of RMI. Every time I've used it in a project, it has had me tearing my hair out over simple problems made maddeningly complex by useless error messages and design choices that seem punitive at best.
I could well be in the minority on this, and that's fine. You may decide you love RMI, and I hope to give you enough information here for you to decide that yourself. It certainly provides you a greater degree of control over the distribution of your objects than using an API set such as JSP/Servlets (where only the presentation is on the client) ...
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