Copyright © 2001 Qusay H. Mahmoud
Distributed Garbage
Collection
lRMI provides a distributed garbage collector that
deletes remote objects no longer referenced by a
client
lUses a reference-counting algorithm to keep track
of live references in each Virtual Machine
lWhen a live reference enters VM ++, and when unreferenced
--, when reaches 0 garbage col’ct
lRMI keeps tracks of VM identifiers, so objects are
collected when no local OR remote references to them