Interfaces that may need to be remotely accessible must extend java.rmi.Remote, and their methods must throw a java.rmi.RemoteException. This can be quite intrusive.

CORBA supports the passing of service-context information implicitly with requests and replies over remote object interface invocation. Without instrumenting the underlying protocol, Java RMI ...

The driving force behind EJB 2.1 is the need for Enterprise JavaBeans technology to support Web services -- a need that in turn is driven by Microsoft's release of its mammoth .NET platform, which is ...