问题
What is the difference between stub and skeleton? As I know stub use java RMI and skeleton doesn't.
回答1:
Stubs and Skeletons
RMI uses a standard mechanism (employed in RPC systems) for communicating with remote objects: stubs and skeletons. A stub for a remote object acts as a client's local representative or proxy for the remote object. The caller invokes a method on the local stub which is responsible for carrying out the method call on the remote object. In RMI, a stub for a remote object implements the same set of remote interfaces that a remote object implements.
When a stub's method is invoked, it does the following:
- initiates a connection with the remote JVM containing the remote object,
- marshals (writes and transmits) the parameters to the remote JVM,
- waits for the result of the method invocation,
- unmarshals (reads) the return value or exception returned, and
- returns the value to the caller.
The stub hides the serialization of parameters and the network-level communication in order to present a simple invocation mechanism to the caller.
In the remote JVM, each remote object may have a corresponding skeleton (in Java 2 platform-only environments, skeletons are not required).
The skeleton is responsible for dispatching the call to the actual remote object implementation.
When a skeleton receives an incoming method invocation it does the following:
- unmarshals (reads) the parameters for the remote method,
- invokes the method on the actual remote object implementation, and
- marshals (writes and transmits) the result (return value or exception) to the caller.
In the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v1.2 an additional stub protocol was introduced that eliminates the need for skeletons in Java 2 platform-only environments. Instead, generic code is used to carry out the duties performed by skeletons in JDK1.1. Stubs and skeletons are generated by the rmic compiler.
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来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22115195/java-difference-between-stub-and-skeleton