Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) contains a tool rmiregistry to run a stand-alone remote object registry. According to the RMI tutorial, rmiregistry is normally used in an RMI application.

I wonder why. It’s actually almost as simple to run the remote object registry within the RMI server. You only have to use java.rmi.registry.LocateRegistry#createRegistry(int port) method like this:

Registry registry = LocateRegistry.createRegistry(port);
registry.bind("Foo", stub);

Here is a complete example.