Chapter 11. Working with JAX-RPC

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RPC stands for remote procedure calls. RPC is used for making procedure or function calls and receiving the responses, both over the network. During the days of procedural languages, this was the de facto method by which distributed applications communicated with each other. This often involved fairly complex socket programming to exchange data between the two remote applications.

However, the growth of object-oriented programming saw a steady decline in the use of procedural languages ...

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