Chapter 9. Mobile code
Outline—How it works—Uses—Security considerations—Setup—HTTP servers—Other protocols—Deployment—Downloading the client
In this chapter
RMI supports the remarkable facility of code mobility. You can send an object to a target even if the target doesn't have the code (the class file). While code mobility is an important feature, it can also prove difficult to implement if you are new to RMI. This chapter describes how code mobility works and why it is useful. It also provides information for implementing and deploying mobile code, along with sample code that highlights the two most common problems.
Outline
An RMI server or client can be configured with a codebase—a list of one or more URLs, each of which specifies a global location ...
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