Using RMI to Communicate with Enterprise JavaBeans
One of the key aspects of the EJB architecture is its distributed nature. By distributed, we mean that all the objects might not be located within the same JVM. So the question becomes, how can you invoke methods from a Java object in JVM A on a Java object in JVM B? The EJB answer is through Remote Method Invocation (RMI). RMI predates EJB and Java. In fact, it has been used by other distributed technologies, such as CORBA and DCOM. For Java, there is a specific version called Java RMI. Java RMI is a distributed object protocol that is specifically designed to allow Java objects to communicate with other Java objects residing in different Java virtual machines. Java RMI is specifically Java-to-Java ...
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