In OOP, objects have identity and state, having a remote endpoint with both these attributes is undesirable. IIRC, RMI also encourages one to abstract over the

In OOP, objects have identity and state, having a remote endpoint with both these attributes is undesirable. IIRC, RMI also encourages one to abstract over the network, which can lead to very fine-grained, brittle and possibly insecure communication. This is somewhat ironic given that Sun itself authored "The fallacies of distributed computing".