Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

• Allows Java programs to call methods on Java objects in different virtual machines, and even different physical machines.
• An RMI server is a java class that is registered in the JVM.
• The JVM listens on a dedicated port for RMI requests.
• RMI clients call the server through a proxy that implements the same interface as the server.
• The Java SDK contains the rmic compiler to automatically generate the proxy and server code required to make a class an RMI server.