Research Article
Enhancing Java RMI with Asynchrony through Reflection
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11284-3_4, author={Orhan Akın and Nadia Erdoğan}, title={Enhancing Java RMI with Asynchrony through Reflection}, proceedings={Communications Infrastructure. Systems and Applications in Europe. First International ICST Conference, EuropeComm 2009, London, UK, August 11-13, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={EUROPECOMM}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Asynchronous Communication Asynchronous RMI RMI Reflection parallel programming distributed programming}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11284-3_4} }- Orhan Akın
Nadia Erdoğan
Year: 2012
Enhancing Java RMI with Asynchrony through Reflection
EUROPECOMM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11284-3_4
Abstract
Java RMI’s synchronous invocation model may cause scalability challenges when long duration invocations are targeted. One way of overcoming this difficulty is adopting an mode of operation. An asynchronous invocation allows the client to continue with its computation after dispatching a call, thus eliminating the need to wait idle while its request is being processed by a remote server. This paper describes an execution framework which extends Java RMI functionality with asynchrony. It is implemented on top of RMI calls, using the thread pooling capability and the reflection mechanism of Java. It differs from previous work as it does not require any external tool, preprocessor, or compiler and it may be integrated with previously developed software as no modification of target remote objects is necessary.