Just Java™ 2, Fifth Edition

Chapter 18. Remote Method Invocation

• Object Serialization

• Remote Method Invocation

• Object Communication Middleware

• Exercises

• Some Light Relief—The Origami Kamikaze Water Bomber

	“There’s a tomato in every automaton.”
	--— Professor Rudolph’s Big Book of Finite State Machines and Fruit Fancies

This chapter tells you all about Java’s Remote Method Invocation feature, which is a library that supports method calls made “across the net.” Why would you want to make a method call on an object that lives on some other system? Think about it this way: it’s the natural evolution of client/server systems.

Sockets provide basic system-to-system communication. Classes ...