Let's overview the steps involved in deploying an RMI program. We must first start the RMI registry program running on the RMI object server, then we can start the object server main program. We also need to set up a web or ftp server so that the RMI runtime can download class files as described earlier. Finally, we can run the client application or display the applet's HTML page in a browser.
Now let's examine each step in more detail.