Using RMI to Implement Remote Controller/Viewer Applets for Java Applications

Abstract

It is well-known the X-windows has the capability to remotely display and control applications. This paper uses Javaâ s Remote Method Invocation (RMI) technology to design a package that has a similar capability. By using This package, a server side Java application will be viewed and controlled remotely by an applet running on a Java-enabled browser. The java programmer need not worry about the messages being passed between the client and server, since the message passing is hidden in the package. A Java application writer can first write a standard Java application, and then use our xawt package to replace the java.awt Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) package. He need only make very minimal changes to his source code to create and RMI version of his application which can use a remote Java applet to display and control the server-side application.