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xsoh

Reputation: 93

Is it possible to import java.rmi.* in Android?

I have a project on my distributed system course and we have to use the java.rmi.* on our project and I knew that android doesn't provide this library because of the dalvik VM problems. So I'm just asking is there away to use these libraries on Android ?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1930

Answers (2)

Shawn_Fan
Shawn_Fan

Reputation: 128

RMI library is not included in Android API. That's really bad. I did a project where I need to use this feature, but couldn't do it. Unfortunately, if you google for this answer, some people tried to wrap RMI into self-defined library, but that does not work for everyone.

You are using RMI, I assume you will need access some database using RMI. Here is my solution:

  1. I built a simple java server to as a connection.

  2. I pull data from the source into the java server, use simple TCP connection to transmit data into my Android.

  3. Also, Android transmit data into my sever, and my server forward data into the source server using RMI.

Not a direct way, but it's quite easy to do so. If you want to read more, I'd include my report on how I construct this intermedia Java server. http://www.shawnfandev.com/wordpress/2014/06/07/ibm-cognos-admin-android/

Good luck!

Upvotes: 0

Elliott Hughes
Elliott Hughes

Reputation: 4665

RMI is not supported on Android. you could implement it yourself, but that's going to be a non-trivial amount of work.

Upvotes: 2

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