Distributed Application J2EE

RMI provides a very simple mechanism to allow both applets and servlets to communicate with one another and invoke one another's methods. RMI is a poor man's distributed object, providing Java developers with the ability to create distributed applications around a simple object-to-object synchronous communication infrastructure. RMI's power is its simplicity. Its weakness has been its difficulty communicating with other distributed objects, including CORBA ORBs. Although both RMI and IIOP are based on TCP/IP (most of IIOP and RMI, actually), they still don't speak the same language.

With the advent of RMI-IIOP, this weakness has been overcome. RMI-IIOP provides developers with an implementation of the Java RMI API ...

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