This series explores some of the ways in which early design decisions can significantly affect application performance. Part 1, examined how a class’s object-creational behavior can be embedded in its ...

The ability to invoke methods on one Java object from objects residing in another JVM has been a standard Java feature since the JDK 1.1 release. The Remote Method Invocation (RMI) framework makes a ...

One part of interacting with an application server is invoking the Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSPs) that reside inside of the Web container. The other half of the puzzle is interacting with ...

Method invocations are represented as objects and then serialized and transported from code in the calling language (e.g. Java), before being invoked on the receiving side (e.g. C#). Any return values ...