JS.1. Introduction
Distributed systems are hard to build. They require careful thinking about problems that do not occur in local computation. The primary problems are those of partial failure, greatly increased latency, and language compatibility. The Java programming language has a remote method invocation system called RMI that lets you approach general distributed computation in the Java programming language using techniques natural to the Java programming language and application environment. This is layered on the Java platform’s object serialization mechanism to marshal parameters of remote methods into a form that can be shipped across the wire and unmarshalled in a remote server’s Java virtual machine [1] (JVM).
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