8.1 The RemoteStub Class

The java.rmi.server.RemoteStub class is the common superclass for stubs of remote objects. Stub objects are surrogates that support exactly the same set of remote interfaces defined by the actual implementation of a remote object.

package java.rmi.server;
public abstract class RemoteStub extends java.rmi.RemoteObject {
	protected RemoteStub();
	protected RemoteStub(RemoteRef ref);
	protected static void setRef(RemoteStub stub, RemoteRef ref);
}

The first constructor of RemoteStub creates a stub with a null remote reference. The second constructor creates a stub with the given remote reference, ref.

The setRef method is deprecated (and unsupported) in JDK1.2.