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.

Likewise, you need to define a class that implements that interface and can be exported as a remote object. The easiest way to define that class is to extend java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject.

Anew Jini surrogate interface architecture developed by Sun and a number of participating companies is an attempt to integrate devices that could not easily take advantage of the Java-based Jini ...