RMI: Remote Method Invocation

• This is Java’s CORBA-like capability to allow Java objects to access each other’s methods remotely

• Note COM is Microsoft’s (remote) object model

• CORBA is Industry (OMG) remote object model

• RMI is Java’s way for remote objects to communicate

• It extends the well known Remote Procedure Call (RPC) used in UNIX

• RMI is thus part of a JavaBean global object model

  • One can imagine that RMI will not “survive” but rather one will use instead the JavaBean to CORBA interface described in earlier examples

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