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Foil 19 Some Remarks on Remote Method Invocation RMI

From Java Grande (a.k.a. Java for High Performance Computing) in a Nutshell Sun MicroSystems Java Day at CMU Pittsburgh -- Sept 26 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 So good news is that RMI has enabled very active distributed computing research and indeed development as in JavaSpaces from Sun
2 Performance is reasonable but insufficient for some applications
  • It is already good enough to get started and for instance outperforms many (Java) CORBA implementations
3 Forum suggests (optional) changes in several areas including
  • Serialization -- this is used in Persistent object storage and to transmit objects between different programs in a distributed application -- can be optimized differently for each case
  • Transport Layer -- need to be able to layer RMI interfaces over fast transport mechanisms -- Myrinet, native ATM etc.

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