Skip to Content
J2EE™ Security for Servlets, EJBs and Web Services: Applying Theory and Standards to Practice
book

J2EE™ Security for Servlets, EJBs and Web Services: Applying Theory and Standards to Practice

by Pankaj Kumar
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 22m
English
Pearson
Content preview from J2EE™ Security for Servlets, EJBs and Web Services: Applying Theory and Standards to Practice

Chapter 8. RMI Security

Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation) is one of the oldest and simplest Java APIs for developing distributed applications. As the name suggests, it allows a client program to call methods on remote objects, or objects hosted on a JVM other than the client's JVM. The client and server JVMs need not even be on the same machine. The only requirement is that there must exist some kind of network connectivity, most often one based on TCP/IP, between these machines.[1]

[1] Theoretically, it is possible to have RMI over networks other than TCP/IP, although, in practice, most RMI implementations use TCP/IP as the underlying protocol.

RMI allows both client and server programs to stick with the familiar object-oriented programming ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

J2EE™ Platform Web Services

J2EE™ Platform Web Services

Ray Lai
J2EE™ Applications and BEA™ WebLogic Server™

J2EE™ Applications and BEA™ WebLogic Server™

Michael Girdley, Rob Woollen, Sandra L. Emerson

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0131402641Purchase book