Designing RMI Applications

We present some of the ideas from:

• William Grosso, Java RMI, 2002. Chapters 5-10, 12-17, 19-20, 22.

Code examples were downloaded from and belong to O'Reilly.

1. 1 Sketch a Rough Architecture
2. 2 Bank Example
3. 3 Two Choices
4. 4 Choosing*
   1. 4.1 Does Each Instance Require Shared Resource?
   2. 4.2 How Well Server Scales or Replicates to Multiple Machines?
   3. 4.3 Is Single Server Enough?
   4. 4.4 How to Handle Multiple Simultaneous Clients?
   5. 4.5 Is Code Correct?
   6. 4.6 How Fatal is Server Crash?
   7. 4.7 How Easy Adding Functionality?
5. 5 Writing the Interface
   1. 5.1 Should We Pass Method Objects?
   2. 5.2 Pass Objects As Arguments or Use Primitive Values?
   3. 5.3 Return Values: Objects or Primitive Values?
   4. 5.4 Do Individual Method Calls Waste Bandwidth?
   5. 5.5 Is Each Conceptual Operation A Single Method Call?
   6. 5.6 Does The Interface Expose The Right Amount Of Metadata?
   7. 5.7 Have We Identified A Reasonable Set Of Distributed Exceptions?
6. 6 Building Data Objects
7. 7 Server Implementation
8. 8 Server Implementation 2
9. 9 Launch Code
10. 10 Building the Client
11. 11 Serialization
    1. 11.1 Using Serialization
    2. 11.2 Making a Class Serializable
       1. 11.2.1 Ensure Serialization of Instance-Level State
       2. 11.2.2 Ensure Superclass State is Handled Correctly
       3. 11.2.3 Override equals() and hashCode()
12. 12 Threading
    1. 12.1 Ensure Data Integrity
    2. 12.2 Client Maintains Lock
    3. 12.3 Using a Lock Expiry Thread
    4. 12.4 Minimize Time in Synchronized Blocks.
    5. 12.5 Be Careful When Using Container Classes.*
    6. 12.6 Use Containers To Mediate Inter-thread Communication.
13. 13 Testing
    1. 13.1 Test Strategy
14. 14 Naming Services
15. 15 RMI Garbage Collection
16. 16 RMI Logging
    1. 16.1 Specialized Logs
17. 17 Security Policy
    1. 17.1 Security Manager Permissions
    2. 17.2 The Security Manager
18. 18 HTTP Tunneling

Entire Presentation with Notes (PDF)
Index on left

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Copyright © 2004 José M. Vidal . All rights reserved.

17 March 2004, 09:43AM