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Trying to get an understanding on how the RMI is working (I have a simple application that uses RMI and seems to work just fine).
My question is : What happens when an rmi call is made? What happens on the way from an rmi client to an rmi server?
after the lookup described above, the objects used as parameters in a rmi call are serialized (Marshalling) that means a byte by byte representation of the objects non transient data will be send over the network connection. On server-side the serialized data will be unmarshalled and the objects will be instantiated. After that the server-side method is invoked, return values will be returned in a similar way as parameters have been previously send. It is similar to writing an object into a file.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/rmi/faq.html