RMI : Remote Method Invocation in Java

This page holds pointers to techniques and sites for the Java Remote Method Invocation, a kind of Remote Procedure Call for distributed applications in Java.

Here is one chapter of my book "Applications Réparties en Java" in French about RMI.

Along time, this page adds more excentic software related to distributed applications, such as non-standard versions of RMI, or clustering in java.

Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

• A simple intro to RMI
• RMI Specification
• JDK 1.2 RMI spec
• Sun RMI Forum
• JGuru RMI FAQ

RMI and eclipse

It is very easy to use RMI tools in eclipse. For generating stubs, create a new external tool with location :

/usr/bin/rmi

with : Working directory the variable :

${project_loc}

with arguments :

${java_type_name}

Tutorials

• Sun RMI Tutorial
• Tutorial Sun
• Bootstrap Example
• JGuru : RMI tutorial
• RMI Enhancements
• Dynamic code downloading using RMI
• Parameters in RMI
• IBM Tutorial
• Applying the Factory pattern to RMI
• Serializing Remote Objects
• RMI Code Samples
• Java Servlets and Serialization in RMI
• How to make a class Serializable
• Performance issues for serializing a class : using Externalizable
• Learning Command Objects and RMI
• Caching stubs for performance
• Jacques Dubuis
• Life cycle in RMI
• Class loading in RMI
• A Java RMI Server Framework

Exemples de programmes RMI (Michel Riveill)

Object activation

• Activatable objects
• Remote Object Activation (1.2) and 1.4
• Runtime class RMI server

RMI - CORBA - IIOP

• RMI-Corba
• Java Corba for J2SE 5
• RMI over IIOP or here or here and tutorial
• RMI-IIOP sample code
• Distributed Java Programming with RMI and Corba
• Gopalan RMI IIOP
• RMI/Corba Interoperability
• Restrictions on use of RMI IIOP
• RMI IIOP Programmers ' Guide
• Java IDL FAQ
• RMI-IIOP documentation
• RMI-IIOP Programmers' guide

RMI and security

• Security
• Scoop on RMI and SSL
• Creating a Custom RMI Socket Factory
• Using RMI with Phaos SSlava

Papers

• RMI Patterns
• Transparent RMI
• Time-outs in RMI
• Service context propagation in RMI

Products and tools - Alternatives and enhancements

• Plugin Eclipse for RMI
• Centij : An RMI Code generator
• KaRMI : RMI for non TCP/IP networks
• Ninja RMI
• IBIS RMI
• RMI Lite : stubs are generated by reflection
• AltRMI from Apache

Tutorials, education

TP Essi

Sun Quizz RMI

Books

JavaRmi

Other links

See also : Java Security

Sockets

Transporting Objects over Sockets

Java Sockets tutorial

Cours de Queinnec sur RMI et

Cours plus général

Encore un cours UDP/UDP Java

CSp in Java (jcsp)

Clustering in Java

Cajo project

MPJ Express: MPI (message Passing ) for Java

Miscellaneous

RMICallbacks

RMI framework

Sun RMI Tutorial

RMI IIOP : Sun cookbook

Getting started using RMI/IIOP

Example using POA

Seamlessly caching stubs for performance

Chapter 10 form Java RMI by Willima Grosso

Performance issues with Serialization

Comparing Externalizable to Serializable

Dynamically loading classes in RMI

Sun RMI guide

JGuru RMI FAQs

SecurityManager to download classes

Properties Rmi
Properties SunRmi

Object activation


Rmi chat

Using an asynchronous process manager to contain your RMI server applications


.Net Remoting versus RMI (en français)

Accessing a RMI/IIOP-based CORBA object with .NET remoting

RMI -IIOP Javaworld 99

RMI -IIOP tutorial

RMI-IIOP Sun reference

A corba Client to an EJB

Java Rmi Serialization by W. Grosso ed. OReilly

Comparison Socket/RMI en performance

Java IDL main page

Getting started with Java IDL

RMI threads FAQ

Concurrence de ressources et RMI


Designing RMI Applications