Chapter 18. Selected further topics
Distributed garbage collection—Logging—Debugging—Testing RMI in a single machine—Performance—RMI and JDK versions—Exercises
In this chapter
In this chapter we discuss some selected further topics in RMI: DGC, logging, debugging, performance, efficiency, and the usability and interoperability of RMI under different versions of Java and JDK.
Distributed garbage collection
You really don't need to know much about distributed garbage collection (DGC) in RMI, except that it exists. The interfaces and classes defined in the package java.rmi.dgc are used by the DGC subsystem, not by developers.
Overview
Consider a client which acquires a remote reference to an RMI server. As we saw in §1.5, a remote reference is initially ...
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