What is a skeleton in a network?

Question

In a J2EE application, clients (applications, JSPs, servlets, JavaBeans) access entity beans via their remote interfaces. Thus, every client invocation po

Answer 1

When talking about RPC, stubs and skeletons are proxies for the remotely called procedure/method on the client/server respectively.

A client invokes a stub, that stub sends a protocol request to the server. The request arrives to the skeleton at the server, which then invokes the exported method.

Typically, stubs and skeletons are autogenerated from some IDL description by some tool