Carteruccio

Hi everyone,

is it possible to use rmi on Android?

Tnx

Carteruccio

mmm...no-one answering my question?

apprabbit

Stupid question, but what is RMI? A quick google search didn't give me a good indication of what you're talking about, based on the context. I'd love to help, but I'm not sure what you're talking about :-)

Carteruccio

It's Java RMI! it enables the programmer to create distributed Java applications, in which the methods of remote Java objects can be invoked from other Java virtual machines, possibly on different hosts!
So my problem is the following: I hava a Java Application (let's call it JA) and an Android application (let's call it AA) running on a PC. I want AA to communicate with JA but I don't know how to do since I started working with Android just last week, so I don't have a lot of experience! When you have two Java applications you can use RMI to have them communicating but with Android RMI seems not working at all!

timp

Hi, I've just started playing round with both Android and the google app engine(free) and while neither support RMI, they both support java reflection, I've managed to "roll my own" RMI that works over http from the android phone to a google app engine app(or anywhere else capable of running a servlet), One draw back of using google app engine as the server is all the method calls are of a static(stateless) nature as you can't guarantee that consecutive method calls will be processed on the same server/jvm.
If you would like my code, just ask and I will try and upload it here or email it to you.

rshnrocket85

Hey timp,

I would love to be able to see how you were able to accomplishthe rmi to work. I am currently attempting to write an android app that would be able to connect to a jboss server, but been having a hard time getting the rmi to work.

emaborsa

I'd be curious too....have you been able?

sohguanh

RMI sounds good but won't it achieve something similar by having web services in the form of REST? JSON format is popular and I think it should form the future. RMI to me are too troublesome when all we want is to transmit a message from A to B.

Can you imagine using RMI to get those RSS feeds? It is overkill. A simple HTTP call, the return text in some pre-defined XML format and we are done.