Network discovery and multithreading in RMI

I've implemented an RMI sever-client example and another program which finds out the active physical machines on the network. I'开发者_JAVA百科ve to develop an application where: 1. Server multicasts "any clients alive" to all m/c in subnet. 2. Clients respond with their current state and "alive messages" 1-2 should happen periodically 3. Server executes operations on the client machine(s) using RMI.

Can someone pls tell me how to put my programs together so that I can get my application running?

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I would recommend you check out Jini, which performs the above discovery/keep-alive etc. via multicast together with the RMI invocation mechanism.