Analysis of Java Distributed Architectures in Designing and Implementing aClient/Server Database System

摘要

Java Development Kit (JDK) comes with a broad range of classes for network anddatabase programming. Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is one such class for providing client/server database access. There are many different approaches in using JDBC, ranging from low level socket programming, to a more abstract middleware approach. This thesis analyzes three different approaches: Sockets, Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and Commercial Middleware servers. Among the three approaches this thesis examined, database access through RMI is the most viable approach because it uses an effective distributed object model. RMI abstracts the communication interface to the level of a procedure call. Instead of working directly with sockets, programmers can invoke a remote procedure as if it resided locally.