Tencent IMWeb Frontend Team

Sep 24, 2018 · Backend Development

How Electron’s remote Module Mimics Java RMI to Seamlessly Share Objects Between Processes

This article explains the two inter‑process communication methods in Electron, demonstrates why the remote module behaves like a reference rather than a copy, and reveals its internal implementation that mirrors Java RMI by wrapping objects and functions as remote proxies using synchronous IPC messages.