about JRMP

[air lulu]

"In the event that the server is secure or cannot communicate in the most efficient manner JRMP falls back to HTTP."
what does "fall back to HTTP" mean?

[karthikeyan Chockalingam]

Incase there is a firewall protecting your server and RMI-JRMP port is blocked, HTTP tunnelling is used as HTTP is a firewall-trusted protocol.

Read section 17.2 in the link below

http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csneal/InternetComputing/Tunnelling.html