RMI: Java RMI

• Java RMI: uses the homogeneous environment of Java Virtual Machine (JVM)to provide the communication mechanism:
  • Locate remote objects: register remote objects with RMI naming facility (rmiregistry); pass and return remote object references
  • Communicate with remote objects: Java method call handling by RMI
  • Load class bytecodes for objects passed as parameters or return values:load object code, transmit its data
• Communication between Servers and Clients: communicate references to remote objects (parameters, results); non-remote arguments copied across
• Server: create remote objects; make references to them accessible; wait for clients to invoke the remote object methods
• Client: get remote references to remote objects on server; invoke methods on them
• Exceptions: problems with remote invocation