Server identification – a simple url based identifier which allows for remoting servers to be identified and called upon.

Pluggable transports – can use different protocol transports the same remoting API. Provided transports:

Pluggable data marshallers – can use different data marshallers and unmarshallers to convert the invocation payloads into desired data format for wire transfer.

Pluggable serialization - can use different serialization implementations for data streams. Provided serialization implementations:

Automatic discovery – can detect remoting servers as they come on and off line. Provided detection implementations:

Server grouping – ability to group servers by logical domains, so only communicate with servers within specified domains.

Callbacks – can receive server callbacks via push and pull models. Pull model allows for persistent stores and memory management.

Asynchronous calls – can make asynchronous, or one way, calls to server.

Local invocation – if making an invocation on a remoting server that is within the same process space, remoting will automatically make this call by reference, to improve performance.

Remote classloading – allows for classes, such as custom marshallers, that do not exist within client to be loaded from server.

Sending of streams – allows for clients to send input streams to server, which can be read on demand on the server.

Clustering - seamless client failover for remote invocations.

Connection failure notification - notification if client or server has failed

Data Compression - can use compression marshaller and unmarshaller for compresssion of large payloads.