October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
16h 30m
English
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The Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) package is a very natural way to do a three-tiered application. Because RMI is so tightly integrated with Java, it gives you a very natural feel. Calling a method in a remote Java object is just like calling a method in a local object, except that there is always the possibility of the call failing because of network problems.
When you use RMI in a Java Web application, the main thing you need to be concerned with is how you manage your remote object references. That is, you need to know when to create a connection to a remote object, how many connections ...
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