What is remote method invocation?
Remote method invocation (RMI), is a mechanism for invoking an object’s methods, even though the object is executing on a foreign Java Virtual Machine (JVM). RMI is similar to remote procedure calls (RPCs), but has an added advantage – method signatures can contain Java objects as well as primitive data types. Even objects that a foreign JVM has never encountered before can be used, so new tasks and methods can be passed across a network.
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