May 2001
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
30h 13m
English
Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is one of the cornerstones of Enterprise JavaBeans and is an extremely handy way to make distributed Java applications. The idea is simple: Instead of invoking a method on another Java object running in the same Java Virtual Machine (that is, the same executing program), you invoke a method in a Java object in another JVM on the same computer or a different one. Figure 4.1 illustrates the difference between a normal method invocation and a remote method invocation.

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