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As before, in order to run the example, we have to do the following steps:

1. Start the RMI registry by running the rmiregistry utility.
2. Start the BankAccount server:

   On Windows:        start java rmiServer.BankAccountServer

   On Unix/Linux:        java rmiServer.BankAccountServer &

   If all goes well, the server should output:

   Starting BankAccount Server...
   Creating BankAccount objects...
   Binding remote objects to registry...
   BankAccount Server ready...

3. Run  the BankAccount client:

   java rmiClient.BankAccountClient

   If all goes well, the client should display:

Note: Again, the order in which we perform these steps is important!

Now, we can enter a name by which the bank account client can identify the bank account remote object.  Remember we have two accounts, one with a name Fred, and the other with a name Mary.

As shown above, if we enter the name Mary, we'll see a second window come up:

We can then deposit some money into Mary's account:

and withdraw money from her account:

Then we can dismiss the window (actually, a dialog box) by clicking on the OK button, which will allow us to enter another account name:

and thereby bring up another dialog box with Fred's account details:

where we can also deposit and/or withdraw money from that account.

On the other hand, if we enter an account name that doesn't exist:

we get the following displayed:

In this case, our client also does a stack trace, which looks something like:

javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Bozo
        at com.sun.jndi.rmi.registry.RegistryContext.lookup(RegistryContext.java:95)
        at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.url.GenericURLContext.lookup(GenericURLContext.java:185)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351)
        at rmiClient.BankAccountClient.findAccount(BankAccountClient.java:58)
        at rmiClient.BankAccountClient.access$000(BankAccountClient.java:25)
        at rmiClient.BankAccountClient$1.actionPerformed(BankAccountClient.java:42)
	...