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title: "What is skeleton and stub? what is the purpose of those?"  
description: "What is skeleton and stub? what is the purpose of those?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2011-05-21  
updated: 2020-09-21  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/986/what-is-skeleton-and-stub-what-is-the-purpose-of-those  
category: "java"  
tags: ["java"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is skeleton and stub? what is the purpose of those?

Stub is a client side representation of the server, which takes care of communicating with the remote server. Skeleton is the server side representation. But that is no more in use… it is deprecated long before in JDK.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Stub is a client side representation of the server, which takes care of communicating with the remote server. Skeleton is the server side representation. But that is no more in use… it is deprecated long before in JDK.


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