remote reference

[Olivier poiiop]

Hello
i would like to understand what is exactly a remote reference and what does it contains. Is it an instance of the stub ? is this stub created on the server and then serialized to be pased to the client ? Is it information about remote object and about the stub to instantiate in the client memory ?
thank you very much
Olivier

[Lasse Koskela]

A remote reference is a reference to the stub object, which knows how to pass the method invocations to the target object on the server-side. In practise, this information might include an IP address, port number, and some identifiers needed by the application server's plumbing to route the invocation to the correct object.

[vikasids sharma]

Lasse
Is not that the stub and remote reference are one and same entity? .
A remote reference(stub)at client side is reference to remote object that is ejb object.Both stubs and skeletons are created at server side.When we call create() on home object , reference to ejb object which we call stub is returned to client code.

Originally posted by Lasse Koskela:
A remote reference is a reference to the stub object, which knows how to pass the method invocations to the target object on the server-side. In practise, this information might include an IP address, port number, and some identifiers needed by the application server's plumbing to route the invocation to the correct object.