what is stub on the "server" and what does skeleton mean?
What does stub do on the server side ? And what is a skeleton ?
This is a diagram from wikipedia. I installed stub both on the server machine and the client machine. I understand that stub helps in the networking on the client side but what does stub do on the server side ?
Also in the above figure what does skeleton mean ?
Answer
look at the followed picture:
To be short,stub and skeleton are counterparts in a web service setup. Skeleton belongs to service provider side and stub belongs to receiver side. At lower level stub and skeleton communicate with each other.
From client side the business objects communicates with stub objects and stub takes the responsibility form the message and invoke the web service. Once the invoking is done, at service provider side, skeleton is the parallel object for stub and it receives the request message and understands it and passes on the information to service side business objects.