Java RMI Resources

Question

I am currently undertaking a project that involves extensive use of Java RMI and I was wondering if anyone is aware of any good resources about it.

The problem I am havi

Answer 1

If you are going to make heavy use of RMI, I would suggest having a look at Spring Remoting. It helps a lot in abstracting the remoting protocol, help you switch remoting implementation later if you need to (for example switch to Hessian, or SOAP).

One thing to keep in mind if you use RMI or any other remote object protocol, is that you can generate a lot of traffic by calling methods on remote objects. It might not be obvious in your code that those objects are remote. It might generate performances problems.

If you can, I would advise you to have a architecture more or less service oriented, where you call remote services to get data object, but not to have too much behaviour on those objects ...