Accessing Remote Objects as a Client
Now that we’ve defined a remote object interface and its server implementation, and generated the stub and skeleton classes that RMI uses to establish the link between the server object and the remote client, it’s time to look at how you make your remote objects available to remote clients.
The Registry and Naming Services
The
first remote object reference in an
RMI distributed application is typically obtained through the RMI
registry facility and the Naming
interface. Every
host that wants to export remote references to local Java objects
must be running an RMI registry daemon of some kind.
A registry
daemon listens (on a particular port)
for requests from remote clients for references to objects served on
that host. The standard Sun Java SDK distribution
provides an RMI registry daemon, rmiregistry.
This utility simply creates a Registry
object that
listens to a specified port and then goes into a wait loop, waiting
for local processes to register objects with it or for clients to
connect and look up RMI objects in its registry. You start the
registry daemon by running the rmiregistry
command, with an optional argument that specifies a port to listen
to:
objhost% rmiregistry 5000 &
Without the port argument, the
RMI registry daemon listens on port 1099. Typically, you run the
registry daemon in the background (i.e., put an
&
at the end of the command on a Unix system
or run start rmiregistry [
port
]
in a DOS window on a Windows system), ...
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