Performance studies of remote method invocation in Java

Author

Koutsogiannakis, George ; Savva, Marios ; Chang, J. Moms

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In 1999 Sun Microsystems and IBM introduced a new version of Java´s remote method invocation (RMI), called remote method invocation over Internet inter-object request broker (ORB) protocol (RMI over HOP), with the release of JDK1.3. The new RMI API uses a different transport protocol than the original RMI, that is compliant to Common Object Request Broker Architecture´s (CORBA) Internet Inter-ORB (IIOP) specification. The original RMI uses the Java remote method protocol (JRMP) as the transport protocol. This paper illustrates that HOP is less efficient in the transmission of data than JRMP in spite of the fact that it uses less TCP packets. The goal is to allow developers to decide when to use JRMP versus RMI over HOP when Java to Java object communications are involved and performance cost is of issue

Keywords

Internet; Java; application program interfaces; distributed object management; open systems; transport protocols; CORBA; Internet; JRMP; Java performance; Java remote method protocol; ORB protocol; distributed garbage collection; interoperability; object request broker; remote method invocation; transport protocol; Application software; Availability; Computer science; Costs; Electric variables measurement; Internet; Java; Sun; Time measurement; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2002. 21st IEEE International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7371-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPCCC.2002.995130

Filename

995130