Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is an application programming interface ... to interact with objects running on a different JVM in a distributed network. Another way to say this is that RMI provides a ...

When RMI debuted, Web-scale remote method invocation was hardly a feature required of distributed systems. At that time, Web-based distributed computing amounted to simple interaction between Web ...

The latest RMI framework, Jini Extensible Remote Invocation (JERI), introduced as part of the Jini 2.0 release, features a powerful, highly configurable RMI security mechanism.