Remote Method Invocation
Remote Method Invocation (RMI) enables programmers to create
distributed Java-to-Java applications, in which the methods of remote
Java objects can be invoked from other Java virtual machines, possibly
on different hosts. A Java program can make a call on a remote object
once it obtains a reference to the remote object, either by looking up
the remote object in the bootstrap naming service provided by RMI or by
receiving the reference as an argument or a return value. A client can
call a remote object in a server, and that server can also be a client
of other remote objects. RMI uses object serialization to marshal and
unmarshal parameters and does not truncate types, thereby supporting
true object-oriented polymorphism.
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