Java remote method invocation
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The Java Remote Method Invocation API, or RMI, is a Java application programming interface for performing remote procedural calls. There are two common implementations of the interface, the initial one to be implemented known as JRMP and a version compatible with CORBA. Usage of the term RMI may denote solely the programming interface or may signify both the API and JRMP, whereas the term RMI-IIOP, read RMI over IIOP, denotes the RMI interface over the CORBA IIOP bus.
The original RMI API was generalized somewhat to support different implementations. Additionally, work was done to CORBA, adding a pass by value capability, to support the RMI interface. Still, the RMI-IIOP implementation supports only a subset of the JRMP implementation.
External links
For further information on specific ways RMI is being used, please see:
- Sun's Java API Reference for the RMI package (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/rmi/package-summary.html)
- cajo (https://cajo.dev.java.net/) A simple, powerful, and free framework; for transparent, dynamic cooperation, between Java Virtual Machines
- Transparent RMI (http://trmi.sourceforge.net/)
- The JERI project (http://davis.jini.org/)
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