How to deploy a RMI application

Question

I really need help here as I am at a complete loss. I have developed my RMI application and everything works on one single machine. Can somebody put me in the right direction as to how to deploy this to run on differnt machines probably located at different places? Will i definitely need a web server?
How do I go about this? Please help!!!

Answer 1

Can somebody put me in the right direction as to how to deploy this to run on differnt machines probably located at different places?You need to separate your application into 3 JAR files
(a) common: the remote interface(s), the stub(s), and every application class named in them, and so on until closure
(b) server: the server Impl classes and everything they depend on that isn't already in (a)
(c) client: the client classes and everything they depend on that isn't already in (a)
The server JAR goes at the server. The client JAR file goes at the client. The common JAR file goes at the server. Whether it goes to the client too depends on:
Will i definitely need a web server?Not unless you want to use the codebase feature, i.e. java.rmi.server.codebase. If you use this, it has to be the URL of the common JAR file, ending I believe in .jar!, and the web server needs to deliver that JAR file in response to that URL.
If you don't use the codebase feature, you don't need a WEB server, and the common JAR file is also required at the client, and on the Registry's classpath too if you're not using LocateRegistry.createRegistry().