Mobile Code

From Jini.org

Jini makes extensive use of mobile code. Usually this is used for encapsulating communication protocols between Jini services. After lookup and discovery a client will download a proxy to a service via a codebase server. This proxy is then deserialized into a running object with a known interface. The client calls methods on the service proxy, which in turn is responsible for implementing how the communication with the service occurs (usually RMI is used here).

Further Information

• Jini Planet: How Codebase Works
• Codebase sans Jini, from Java docs