Server identification - a simple url based identifier which allows for remoting servers to be identified and called upon.

Pluggable transports - can use different protocol transports the same remoting API.

Provided transports:

Pluggable data marshallers - can use different data marshallers and unmarshallers to convert the invocation payloads into desired data format for wire transfer.

Pluggable serialization - can use different serialization implementations for data streams.

Provided serialization implementations:

Multihome servers: servers can bind to any subset of available IP addresses

Security manager safe: security sensitive calls are made through java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged() calls

Provided detection implementations:

Server grouping - ability to group servers by logical domains, so only communicate with servers within specified domains.

Callbacks - can receive server callbacks via push and pull models. Pull model allows for persistent stores and memory management.

Asynchronous calls - can make asynchronous, or one way, calls to server.

Local invocation - if making an invocation on a remoting server that is within the same process space, remoting will automatically make this call by reference, to improve performance.

Remote classloading - allows for classes, such as custom marshallers, that do not exist within client to be loaded from server.

Sending of streams - allows for clients to send input streams to server, which can be read on demand on the server.

Clustering - seamless client failover for remote invocations.

Connection failure notification - notification if client or server has failed.

Data Compression - can use compression marshaller and unmarshaller for compresssion of large payloads.