Java Rmi

If youre a distributed Java or Enterprise JavaBeans programmer, then youve undoubtedly heard of Javas Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Java programmers use RMI to write efficient, fault-tolerant distributed applications with very little time or effort. Whether youre networking across a LAN or across the Internet, RMI provides Java programmers with a lightweight solution to a heavyweight problem.

Java RMI contains a wealth of experience in designing and implementing applications that use Remote Method Invocation. Novice readers 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. 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
  
• CORBA

In short, a treasure trove of valuable RMI knowledge packed into one book!

About the Authors
William Grosso is a well-known speaker, Java SIG chair, and software architect currently residing in the San Francisco Bay area. Hes been working with distributed systems since 1995, lectures for the University of California Berkeley Extension on Enterprise APIs, and is the principal engineer at Hipbone Inc. A former mathematician, he got into programming because it seemed like easy money. He got into distributed computing because he noticed that client-server gurus got the big bucks. And then he started programming in Java because he figured thats where the REAL money was. Having learned the error of his ways, he decided to write a book instead. When not programming or writing, he spends most of his time hiking, drumming, and trying to remember that it was he was about to say.