A.2. Translucent Stubs
A translucent stub is the visible part of a marshalling architecture. A marshalling architecture moves a method call from one environment to another by executing the following series of steps.
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Convert a method invocation into a request message.
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Deliver the request message to a target environment.
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Convert the request message into a method stack in the target environment.
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Invoke the method.
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Convert the return value(s) or exception(s) into a response message.
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Deliver the response message to the source environment.
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Convert the response message back into the types expected by the caller.
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Figure A-1 illustrates these steps.
Figure A-1. Marshalling a call from Java to COM
Stubs vary in how well they ...
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