The _rmic_ tool has been deprecated and may be removed from a future release. The _rmic_ tool was used to create static stubs that support the Java Remote Method Protocol (JRMP) used by the Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) facility. Statically generated stubs are obsolete and were replaced by dynamically generated stubs in Java SE 5.0. Dynamically generated stubs no longer require pregeneration using a tool such as _rmic_, and they are functionally equivalent to statically generated stubs. RMI applications should be migrated to use dynamically generated RMI stubs by changing the way remote objects are exported. See the class documentation for `java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject` for further details.