RMI-IIOP (read as "RMI over IIOP") denotes the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) interface over the Internet Inter-Orb Protocol (IIOP), which delivers Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) distributed computing capabilities to the Java platform. It was initially based on two specifications: the Java Language Mapping to OMG IDL, and CORBA/IIOP 2.3.1.[1]
With features inherited from CORBA, software components that work together can be written in multiple computer languages and run on multiple computers. In other words, it supports multiple platforms and can make remote procedure calls to execute, subroutines on another computer as defined by RMI.
In addition to Java IDL, Java SE also supports Java Remote Method Invocation over Internet Inter-ORB Protocol technology ("RMI-IIOP") This technology provides the ability to write CORBA applications for the Java platform without learning CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL). RMI over IIOP is based on two specifications of the Object Management Group: Java Language Mapping to OMG IDL Specification, and CORBA/IIOP 2.3.1 Specification, formal/99-10-07.