RMI Architecture

• One key piece is a server that acts as the network lookup, a naming registry from which the client can get a reference to the remote object (the server).

• Another key piece is object serialization. Parameters to and from the remote methods must be sent in a standard encoding across the network.

client

Server with

implementations

of remote methods

Naming registry

RMI

RMI

RMI

Calls to methods in the remote object may pass parameters and receive results

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