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Difference between Remote Procedure Call and HTTP

 
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Hi

I dont understand what is meant by Remote Procedure call
I have gone through its definations , but i cannot find ay difference between a Remote Procedure call and a HTTP

(As per web it says this
(Remote procedure call (RPC) is an Inter-process communication technology that allows a computer program to cause a subroutine or procedure to execute in another address space without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction.)


Please tell me how this is different from a Http call ??
Thank you .
 
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One uses HTTP the other might not.
 
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Aim of both RPC and HTTP is same.. execute some code @ server side..

We can use different mechanism to acheive.. RPC..

Use either Java RMI / XML RPC /CORBA .. and so on.

But HTTP is a standard protocol which will invoke a particular resource on the server.
 
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I just want to confirm one thing on this .

If we call a SessionBean or some RemoteObject (normal java class) from my Swing application , will that be treated as a Remote Procedure call??

Please share your ideas .
 
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I would say.. YES.

Actually EJB Components are invoked using RMI-IIOP.. again a flavour of RPC.

http://java.sun.com/products/rmi-iiop/
 
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Thank you very much for clearning my doubt
 
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