Can I use compression to improve RMI performance when transferring large datasets between the client and server?

Created Dec 28, 2001

Govind Seshadri

Yes, you should be able to use the ZipInputStream and ZipOutputStream classes within a custom socket factory to give you a new socket type that transparently compresses data. For a tutorial on how to do this, including sample code, see: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaqa/2001-12/01-qa-1207-ziprmi.html?