Client/server architecture - how is this supposed to work?

Hi all,
I am in the initial throws of developing a client server program - my very first - and have been studying the forums for answers, BUT...
I am curious how this process works without using RMI...?
To pass primative types or objects to the server from the client I can use serializable, however, how does one also call a method on the server AND pass these variables as the parameters? Is this even possible or am I not thinking this through properly?
This is the order of operation I had in mind...
1. Send an int over the connection
2. Use the int in a switch statement at the server side to invoke the correct method
3. The method then reads the serialized data stream and casts to the expected objects/types.
4. Method executes and sends back any data in the same manner.
The process must be common practise? Surely there is a less convoluted way of doing this?
It would be great to suss out a way of doing this without jumping to RMI 'just yet'...
Gracias!
Message was edited by:
hagend
Actually, I think RMI is probably the easiest way of implementing this. I beleive I misinterpreted aspects of RMI - ALL GOOD!

CORBA, basically it is RPC just like RMI, but a little different.

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