Title: Too basic for a dedicated RMI book
Product review: This is a fairly basic introduction to RMI, going nowhere near the detail available through the JDK documentation. This is not a book for those already in the know about RMI. The author tends to make a big deal of inconsequential topics (eg. the server name does not need to be specified when binding). A lot of effort is spent in showing java code to do things "the hard way" or even "the wrong way" (eg. doing your own serialisation, writing a socket comms protocol) without any attempt to explain why you might want to (other than "Becuase you might need to" - although I suspect its probably "to pad out a book"). The content of this book would have made a decent chapter in a larger, more general "advanced java" book, but does not provide enough meat to stand on its own.
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