RMI 2.2: Skeleton

Skeleton handles incoming method invocation as follows:

1.

unmarshals (reads) the parameters for the remote method

2.

invokes the method on the actual remote object implementation

3.

marshals (write & transmit) the result (return value or exception) to the caller

JDK1.2 only environment works without skeletons, using additional stub protocols to execute generic codes that perform the work of skeletons.