Remoting 3 gives us two ways to invoke local services. One is by creating a client that wraps a request listener directly on the endpoint. The other is to use the connection API to create a local connection, and look up a service across the connection.

Compare the two approaches:

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossremoting/remoting3/trunk/samples/src/main/java/org/jboss/remoting3/samples/simple/LocalBasicExampleMain.java

http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossremoting/remoting3/trunk/samples/src/main/java/org/jboss/remoting3/samples/simple/LocalBasicExample2Main.java

(updated with anonsvn links instead; might take a minute for the anon server to sync up)