The Remote Interface Layer controls various aspects of client/server interaction. It deals with middleware concerns that are outside the focus of the application's business logic and effectively shields the business logic code from the knowledge that it is participating in a client/server environment. The functions of the Remote Interface Layer are:
- Business Object Life-cycle Management
- Creating/locating appropriate Business Objects to service client requests;
- Authorization
- Checking that a client is entitled to execute a particular server function;
- Transaction Control
- Starting, committing, and rolling back atomic transactions;
- Argument marshaling
- Translating between different data formats involved in client/server transmission;
- Last-chance exception handling
- Handling exceptions that are not properly handled by application code, and logging them to a central location, as well as performing uniform reporting to client applications.