RMI 3: Garbage Collection of Remote Objects

• Automatic deletion of remote objects no longer referenced by a client
• Reference Counting GC: RMI runtime keeps track of the live references to each remote object, incrementing a reference count for a new live reference and decrementing it when a live reference is unreferenced. When a remote object receives its first live reference it is signalled as ``referenced'' to the server for the object. When no live references to the object exist it is signalled as ``unreferenced'' to the server of the object. Java virtual machine garbage collector will take care of such ``unreferenced'' objects