The ability to invoke methods on one Java object from objects residing in another JVM has been a standard Java feature since the JDK 1.1 release. The Remote Method Invocation (RMI) framework makes a ...

The Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) is the backbone of J2EE 1.4’s Web services support, offering a fairly complete Java-to-SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) abstraction with the RMI (Remote ...