Produced 4th December 2002 by Krishna Pentayya

Foreword

This paper was written for my Distributed Computer Systems unit during the final year of my degree and is reproduced here in full.

For the purpose of web friendliness the original paper is divided over a number of pages, the contents of each page is described below.

 

Paper Breakdown

Page 1. 1. Introduction

Page 2. 2. RMI versus Remote Process Calls (RPC) - 2.1 Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

Page 3. 2. RMI versus Remote Process Calls (RPC) - 2.2 Remote Process Calls (RPC)

Page 4. 2. RMI versus Remote Process Calls (RPC) - 2.3 Comparison

Page 5. 3. Comparison of Client/Server Model Implementation - 3.1 Description of Application

Page 6. 3. Comparison of Client/Server Model Implementation - 3.2 Discussion of Mechanisms Used in Comparison Models: 3.2.1 Sockets

Page 7. 3. Comparison of Client/Server Model Implementation - 3.3 Implementation of Client/Server Model's: 3.3.1 RMI Implementation

Page 8. 3. Comparison of Client/Server Model Implementation - 3.3 Implementation of Client/Server Model's: 3.3.2 Socket Implementation

Page 9. 3. Comparison of Client/Server Model Implementation - 3.4 Comparison of Implementation of Client/Server Model's

Page 10. 4. Conclusion

Page 11. 5. Reference(s)

Page 12. Appendix A - RMI Implementation Code

Page 13. Appendix B - Socket Implementation Code: Implementation of the Server

Page 14. Appendix B - Socket Implementation Code: Implementation of the Client