Appendix D. RMI Quick Reference

This appendix is a quick reference guide to RMI, the remote object package included in JDK 1.1. Since there are many examples in the book that use RMI, we felt it would be useful for you to have this reference right here at your fingertips.

The RMI API is contained in the java.rmi package, which includes three major sub-packages: java.rmi.dgc, java.rmi.registry, and java.rmi.server. We include all but the java.rmi.dgc package in this reference; that package is really internal to the RMI implementation, having to do with distributed garbage collection, and the average reader won’t have any reason to use the package directly.

This reference is broken down into sections by packages. First we look at the classes in the base java.rmi package, then java.rmi.registry, and, finally, java.rmi.server. Within each package, the classes are listed alphabetically.

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