On designing and implementing a collaborative system using the distributed-object model of Java-RMI

As we enter the 21 st century, our dependency on the Internet is going to increase each day. This observation has inspired many researchers to invest their eeorts into the development of eecient Web-based computing paradigms. Java-RMI is one alternative ooered by Sun Microsystems. Using Java-RMI, a software developer can easily design and develop collaborative systems. In this article, we describe the use of Java-RMI in designing a collaborative information classiier, called D-SIFTER. We also present the principles of RMI, the details of our prototype, and some of the results from the preliminary experiments with it.