RMI Enhancements
There have been important changes made to Remote Method Invocation, Java's mechanism for distributed object programming in an all-Java environment. Here are three new features worth talking about:
RMI now has support for using IIOP, Internet Inter-ORB Protocol.
IIOP is used by CORBA. Prior to the Java 2 SDK, RMI used only JRMP, Java Remote Method Protocol. With the capability to use IIOP, RMI applications can now talk with CORBA applications. As of February 1999, this support for RMI to use CORBA is only in beta form, but I expect it to be finalized soon. This does not mean that RMI is going to be replaced slowly by CORBA using JavaIDL. It does mean that Javasoft is providing the means for interoperability between RMI and CORBA ...
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