what is stub on the “server” and what does skeleton mean?

Question

What does stub do on the server side ? And what is a skeleton ?

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Answer 1

Stub and skeleton both hide some complexity.

The stub hides the serialization of parameters and the network-level communication in order to present a simple invocation mechanism to the caller.

The skeleton is responsible for dispatching the call to the actual remote object implementation.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/platform/rmi/spec/rmi-arch2.html

http://www-itec.uni-klu.ac.at/~harald/ds2001/rmi/rmi.html