Middleware
Connect remotely located Java applications and database
<p>A library has a management software implemented by Java. This software is going to be used as a server application which is located in Vienna. A database including all book informations of the same library is located in London. Find out an appropriate technology by which a client Java application located in Paris can search the book informations of the library remotely.</p>
RPC in the Java Platform
In distributed computing, there is an essential need for the applications in the distributed environment to be able to use the functionalities offered by each application without knowing how these functionalities are implemented. One common possibility for this is the Remote procedure call (RPC), which is an Inter-Proccess communication that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space (commonly on another computer on a shared network). Java Remote Method Invocation is the Java implementation of Remote Procedure Call. In the solution for this "Problem", we will take a look at the mechanism of Java RMI.
