How is a "Local Service" different from a "Remote Service" or a "Smart Proxy"?

Created May 4, 2012

Tim Rohaly

The Jini Architecture Specification describes three ways a service can be implemented:

A local service is implemented as a serializable object which is delivered to the client, and run within the client's VM.
A remote service executes on the server's VM, with some protocol (e.g. RMI) used for communication between client and server.
A smart proxy combines these two functionalities, executing some parts of the service on the client and some parts on the server.