Section 13.1. What s Covered Here?

13.1. What's Covered Here?

This chapter covers the RMI API and runtime included in the JDK 1.5 (otherwise known as J2SE 5.0). In key areas, we'll highlight features or behavior that varies in earlier versions of the JDK. The most notable RMI feature introduced in JDK 1.5 is the dynamic generation of client stubs for RMI remote objects. This makes the use of the RMI compiler optional since stub classes can now be generated on demand at runtime by the JVM. If your distributed system includes clients running in 1.4 or older JVMs, however, you'll still need to generate stub classes with the RMI compiler so that these clients can interact with your remotely exported objects.