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 ...

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) did not simply spontaneously generate. Rather, EJBs were the next logical step in the evolution of enterprise software technology. Just as objects yielded the advent of ...

This series explores some of the ways in which early design decisions can significantly affect application performance. Part 1, examined how a class’s object-creational behavior can be embedded in its ...