CMSC 433, Alan Sussman, U. Maryland (via
Bill Pugh) 1
CMSC433, Spring 2001
Programming Language
Technology and Paradigms
Java RMI
Alan Sussman
October 25, 2001
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Administrivia
•Read Chapter 15, pages 973-979, on RMI
•Project 3 due tomorrow
•Project 2 grades out, but will need some
regrading
•Project 4 due November 7
–distributed chat server, using RMI
–posted by tomorrow, central server running
soon
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Last time
•Multithreaded programming
–and the Java memory model
–Motto is: Be careful!
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Different Approaches to
Distributed Computation
•High-performance, parallel scientific apps
•Connecting via sockets
–custom protocols for each application
•RPC/DCOM/CORBA/RMI
–make what looks like a normal function call
–function is actually invoked on another machine
–Arguments are marshalled for transport
–return value is marshalled as well
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Remote Method Invocation
•Easy way to get distributed computation
•Have stub for remote object
–calls to stub get translated into network call
•Arguments and return values can be passed
over network
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Remote Objects and Interfaces
•Remote Objects are those that can be
referenced remotely
–extend java.rmi.UnicastRemoteObject
–constructor throws java.rmi.RemoteException
•Remote interfaces describe services that can
be provided remotely
–extend java.rmi.Remote interface
–all methods throw java.rmi.RemoteException
