A distributed and hierarchical naming scheme for Java RMI with support for persistence and caching

Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98).Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI) is a icrographics. distributed object technology that is going to play a pivotal role in the distributed object world of tomorrow. With the introduction of the Remote Object Activation API in the beta version of Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.2, RMI shows great promise for building large-scale distributed applications. This new API, supports persistent remote object references which were unsupported formerly. Naming is an important concept in computer systems. Among other things, it makes it possible for applications to name its resources and later on locate them given the name. Java RMI supports the naming concept in the form of an RMI registry. However, the naming infrastructure provided by RMI, in itself, may not be sufficient to build large-scale distributed applications. Java RMI expects applications to build on the existing infrastructure it provides for naming to suit their own needs. This thesis proposes an application-level naming scheme for Java RMI suitable for very large-scale distributed programs. The naming scheme proposed in this thesis is distributed, hierarchical and persistent. The naming scheme can be used by organizations to support their distributed Java RMI applications. A caching scheme is also proposed to cache remote object references and is tailored to our naming scheme. The cache can be shred between multiple clients, thereby, possibly decreasing the response time to client requests and reducing the number of requests for the remote object references over the network