Re: (URGENT) How to make client communicate with another client without using server

Abdullah Abdullah wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> this is the first email from me so, i hope someone can help me. I would be
> grateful if anyone can tell me how to make a client communicate with
> another
> client directly without
> using the server in the middle ???

Peer to peer communications, with RMI, always requires one JVM to have a
remote object reference to another JVM's export object.  The rmid
mechanism is tailored toward more static services.  If you have a bunch
of JVMs that you want to talk to each other, and static addresses, and
RMID are a little too difficult to manage, then you might try using Jini
instead.  The Jini lookup server will allow you to dynamically register
'services' that 'clients' can lookup, download and use.  This is the
most flexible way.  And, with mobile code, the downloaded 'service'
might just be a SOAP mechanism, a simple socket mechanism or a RMI type
endpoint.

The Jini Extensible Remote Invocation (JERI) stack provides the ability
to plug in may types of security at deployment time so that different
environments can use the same code with different security requirements.

Gregg Wonderly

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