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Figure 6-5.
Distributed object system
The Delivery Stack
A transport protocol is a protocol built directly above the network layer; the two most com-
mon examples are TCP/IP and UDP. Above the transport layer is the transfer layer, which is
responsible for the transparent transfer of data between hosts, flow control, and end-to-end
error recovery and data transfer. The transport layer issues requests to the network layer.
Figure 6-6 shows the technology stack complete with the network layer that RMI applications
are built upon.
Figure 6-6.
The delivery stack
