11.2. How Does Remote Method Invocation Work?
Systems that use RMI for communication typically are divided into two categories: clients and servers. A server provides an RMI service, and a client invokes object methods of this service.
RMI servers must register with a lookup service, to allow clients to find them, or they can make available a reference to the service in some other fashion. Included as part of the Java platform is an application called rmiregistry, which runs as a separate process and allows applications to register RMI services or obtain a reference to a named service. Once a server has registered, it will then wait for incoming RMI requests from clients. Figure 11-2 illustrates services registering with a single RMI registry. ...
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