Suggestion on remoting (rpc, rmi) for Java SE client-server app?

Question

I'm absolutely in love with the way GWT does RPC. Is there anything similar for Java SE you have experience with that:

1. Is not spring
2. Doesn't require a Java EE/Servlet container to run the server side
3. Is not RMI that comes with Java SE

Answer 1

POJ (Plain Old JSON).

Answer 2

Maybe Jini. Not Spring- or EJB-related, doesn't run in a container, and you can pick the transport.

Answer 3

Apache Mina. Not true rpc but easy to use and surely a option to consider.

Answer 4

If you want something like distributed computing you could have a look at the cajo project.

Answer 5

Did you try sfnrpc (http://code.google.com/p/sfnrpc) No spring required. You can run multiple servers within same JVM You can have a client connect to multiple servers also. No event style programming, but supports asynch and synch calls over nio.