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The RMI system supports many different scenarios. Servers can be configured in an open or closed fashion. Applets can use RMI to invoke methods on objects supported on servers. If an applet creates and passes a remote object to the server, the server can use RMI to make a callback to the remote object. Java applications can use RMI either in client-server mode or from peer to peer. This section highlights the issues surrounding these configurations.