Java Remote Method Invocation over Internet Inter-ORB Protocol Technology

Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) over CORBA's Internet Inter-Orb Protocol (IIOP) combines the best features of Java RMI technology with the best features of CORBA technology. The Enterprise JavaBeans architecture adopted RMI/IIOP as its standard communication protocol. Here we briefly discuss RMI and CORBA's IIOP and their benefits. This discussion will help you to better understand the next section, “Remote and Local Interfaces.”

In the Java distributed object model, a remote object is one whose methods can be invoked from another Java Virtual Machine (JVM), potentially on a different host. An object of this type is described by one or more remote interfaces, which ...

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