net.sf.mmm.service.api.rpc

Interface RemoteInvocationService

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractRemoteInvocationService, AbstractRemoteInvocationServiceClient

public interface RemoteInvocationService

This is the marker interface for a remote service. Such service is defined by an interface extending this one. All methods defined by the interface can be called remotely from anywhere on the network. The service itself is provided by an implementation that runs on a server. Whenever a client wants to invoke a method of a RemoteInvocationService, he technically sends a request to that server, containing the invocation call data including the method-parameters. The server receives the request and invokes the method on the service implementation. Then the server sends a response with the result of the method back to the client.
This API aims to be a simplification for the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) mechanism of GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and as an abstraction from different technologies to make your code portable. However, it may also be used for other scenarios.

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

See Also:

RemoteInvocationServiceCaller