Processing Streamed Data

I have a large set of data to process, consider say 400,000 records read
from a database that I want to pass to another machine to build a local
copy of the data.

I would like the client to make a request for the data and then setup an
ObjectInputStream to receive the streamed data from the server. The
server would just create an ObjectOutputStream and write the objects one
by one, with the client processing them with its ObjectInputStream until
EOF is hit.

What approach should I take for doing this with RMI, just using sockets
it would be pretty simple. Is there already an established protocol
(besides marshalling) that I could use to do this with RMI? 

TIA,

R.

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