Java RMI: Designing & Building Distributed Applications

by William Grosso

Java RMI contains a wealth of experience in designing and implementing Java's Remote Method Invocation. If you're a novice reader, you will quickly be brought up to speed on why RMI is such a powerful yet easy to use tool for distributed programming, while experts can gain valuable experience for constructing their own enterprise and distributed systems.With Java RMI , you'll learn tips and tricks for making your RMI code excel. The book also provides strategies for working with serialization, threading, the RMI registry, sockets and socket factories, activation, dynamic class downloading, HTTP tunneling, distributed garbage collection, JNDI, and CORBA. In short, a treasure trove of valuable RMI knowledge packed into one book.

Genres: Technical, Reference

572 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2001

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is very readable and well written. However, it seems to really focus on low level methods for establishing communication. I think most developers using RMI for communication would be using some sort of third party library to automate or handle some of the tasks described in this book. However, I suppose it is still useful to understand how things work internally.