Remote Procedure Call (RPC): One of the earliest facilities that was created to help programmers write client/server software is known generically as a Remote Procedure Call mechanism. When implementing a program, the programmer uses procedures to keep the code MANAGEABLE. INSTEAD of defining a single, large procedure that performs many tasks, the programmer DIVIDES the tasks into sets and uses shorter procedure to handle each set. A client procedure process CALLS a function on a remote server and suspends itself until it gets back the result. This process that issues the calls and waits until it gets the result is called remote procedure call.

Remote Procedure Call (RPC): One of the earliest facilities that was created to help programmers write client/server software is known generically as a Remote Procedure Call mechanism. When implementing a program, the programmer uses procedures to keep the code manageable. Instead of defining a single, large procedure that performs many tasks, the programmer divides the tasks into sets and uses shorter procedure to handle each set. A client procedure process calls a function on a remote server and suspends itself until it gets back the result. This process that issues the calls and waits until it gets the result is called remote procedure call.