I was reading about the Proxy Design Pattern from BOOK - Head First Design Patterns. In there they were talking about using RMI to make proxy communicate with Remote Object.
Is it still being used even after wide adoption of WebServices?
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RMI is getting a lot less use these days. As you point out various other kinds of client/server communication are widely adopted. However, even if you wanted to use a binary protocol to send objects, RMI is based on Java serialization which is not as efficient as something like Kryo. I recently wrote code that communicated between client and server using a serialization protocol, but I used Kryo and sockets to do the job and not RMI.
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