Actual function of stub in RMI

Help me about actual function of stub in RMI

Basically RMI would act as the intermediate tool in integrating the both remote JVM as well as the other JVM. Which is done in low level, by the socket and I/O communication.
Initially, Client call the method which is invoked in the server side object, believing that Client stub act as the local network. So, stub in RMI basically act as a service provider in the perspective of client object method while prime expectation over the RMI is to pack the method name, argument and etc. and ship it to the server side skeleton. Skeleton unpack the shiped information and send the information (argument, method name and so on ) to the server's implementation's object method.

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                   jJMenuBar = new JMenuBar();
                   jJMenuBar.add(getJMenu());
                   jJMenuBar.add(getJMenu1());
                   jJMenuBar.add(getJMenu2());
              return jJMenuBar;
         * This method initializes jMenu     
         * @return javax.swing.JMenu     
         private JMenu getJMenu() {
              if (jMenu == null) {
                   jMenu = new JMenu();
                   jMenu.setText("My IM");
              return jMenu;
         * This method initializes jMenu1     
         * @return javax.swing.JMenu     
         private JMenu getJMenu1() {
              if (jMenu1 == null) {
                   jMenu1 = new JMenu();
                   jMenu1.setText("People");
              return jMenu1;
         * This method initializes jMenu2     
         * @return javax.swing.JMenu     
         private JMenu getJMenu2() {
              if (jMenu2 == null) {
                   jMenu2 = new JMenu();
                   jMenu2.setText("Help");
              return jMenu2;
         * This method initializes imagePanel     
         * @return javax.swing.JPanel     
         private JPanel getImagePanel() {
              if (imagePanel == null) {
                   imagePanel = new JPanel();
                   imagePanel.setBounds(6, 2, 176, 125);
                   try {
                        BufferedImage bi =
                             ImageIO.read(
                                       getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("images/cute_dog.jpg"));
                        Image scaled = bi.getScaledInstance(
                                  imagePanel.getWidth(), imagePanel.getHeight(), BufferedImage.SCALE_FAST);
                        final JLabel imageLabel = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(scaled));
                        imageLabel.setToolTipText("Double click to change image");
                        imagePanel.add(imageLabel, imageLabel.getName());
                        imageLabel.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() {
                             public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent e) {
                                  if (e.getClickCount() == 2) {
                                       Image selected = imageUpdater.getSelectedImage();
                                       if (selected != null) {
                                            BufferedImage bi = (BufferedImage) selected;
                                            Image scaled = bi.getScaledInstance(
                                                      imageLabel.getWidth(), imageLabel.getHeight(), BufferedImage.SCALE_DEFAULT);
                                            imageLabel.setIcon(new ImageIcon(scaled));
                   } catch (IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
              return imagePanel;
         * This method initializes jSeparator1     
         * @return javax.swing.JSeparator     
         private JSeparator getJSeparator1() {
              if (jSeparator1 == null) {
                   jSeparator1 = new JSeparator();
                   jSeparator1.setBounds(6, 132, 176, 1);
              return jSeparator1;
         public void buddySignedOn(String screenname) throws RemoteException {
              final String temp = screenname;
              Runnable addBuddy = new Runnable() {
                   public void run() {
                        treePanel.addObject(onlineNode, temp);
              SwingUtilities.invokeLater(addBuddy);
         public void buddySignedOff(String screenname) throws RemoteException {
              // TODO Auto-generated method stub
         public boolean equals(Object o) {
              Buddylist buddylist = (Buddylist) o;
              return connectionID == buddylist.connectionID;
         public int hashCode() {
              return connectionID;
    } // @jve:decl-index=0:visual-constraint="10,11"
    * Created on Nov 4, 2006
    import java.rmi.Remote;
    import java.rmi.RemoteException;
    public interface BuddylistInter extends Remote {
         public void buddySignedOn(String screenname) throws RemoteException;
         public void buddySignedOff(String screenname) throws RemoteException;
    * Created on Oct 14, 2006
    * Models a single endpoint of a connection between machines.
    * @author Josh Feldman
    public class Connection {
         private String username;
         private final int connectionID;
         private Buddylist callback = null;
         public Connection(String username, int connectionID) {
              this.username = username;
              this.connectionID = connectionID;
         public Connection(int connectionID) {
              this.connectionID = connectionID;
         public String getUsername() {
              return username;
         public int getConnectionID() {
              return connectionID;
         public void setCallback(Buddylist buddylist) {
              this.callback = buddylist;
         public Buddylist getCallback() {
              return callback;
         public boolean equals(Object o) {     
              Connection otherConnection = (Connection) o;
              if (otherConnection.getConnectionID() == this.connectionID) {
                   return true;
              else {
                   return false;
         public int hashCode() {
              return connectionID;
    * Created on Nov 4, 2006
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.FileInputStream;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.Serializable;
    import java.util.Properties;
    public class Database implements Serializable{
         private final String regex = ";";
         private Properties db = null;
         private String dbPath = "buddies.txt";
         public Database() throws IOException {
              db = new Properties();
              File buddiesFile = new File(dbPath);
              if (!buddiesFile.canRead()) {
                   throw new IOException("Can't read database!");
              try {
                   FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(buddiesFile);
                   db.load(fis);
                   System.out.println("database loaded from file");
              } catch (IOException e) {
                   e.printStackTrace();
                   System.err.println("Can't load the database! Exiting program...");
                   System.exit(0);
          * called when a user adds/deletes a user from the buddylist
         public void changeBuddyList() {
              //TODO
         public boolean doesUserExist(String username) {
              System.out.println(db.getProperty(username));
              return db.getProperty(username) != null;
         public String getPassword(String username) {
              String temp = db.getProperty(username);
              String [] split = temp.split(regex);
              if (split.length == 2)
                   return split[0];
              else {
                   return null;
         public String getBuddies(String username) {
              String temp = db.getProperty(username);
              if (temp == null)
                   return null;
              String [] split = temp.split(regex);
              if (split.length != 2)
                   return null;
              else {
                   return split[1];
          * Determines whether screename1 is a buddy of screename2
          * @return
         public boolean areBuddies(String screename1, String screename2) {
              String [] buddies = getUserBuddies(screename2);
              if (buddies == null) {
                   return false;
              else {
                   for (int i = 0; i < buddies.length; i++) {
                        if (buddies.equals(screename1)) {
                             return true;
              return false;
         public String [] getUserBuddies(String username) {
              System.out.println("in db getUserBuddies: username = " + username);
              String temp = db.getProperty(username);
              if (temp == null)
                   return null;
              String [] split = temp.split(regex);
              if (split.length != 2)
                   return null;
              else {
                   return split[1].split(",");
    import java.awt.GridLayout;
    import javax.swing.JPanel;
    import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
    import javax.swing.JTree;
    import javax.swing.event.TreeModelEvent;
    import javax.swing.event.TreeModelListener;
    import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
    import javax.swing.tree.DefaultTreeModel;
    import javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode;
    import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;
    import javax.swing.tree.TreeSelectionModel;
    // Note that this is not my code but rather code taken
    // from java Sun tutorial
    public class DynamicTree extends JPanel {
        protected DefaultMutableTreeNode rootNode;
        protected DefaultTreeModel treeModel;
        protected JTree tree;
        public DynamicTree() {
            rootNode = new DefaultMutableTreeNode("Root Node");
            treeModel = new DefaultTreeModel(rootNode);
            treeModel.addTreeModelListener(new MyTreeModelListener());
            tree = new JTree(treeModel);
            tree.setRootVisible(false);
            tree.setEditable(false);
            tree.getSelectionModel().setSelectionMode
                    (TreeSelectionModel.SINGLE_TREE_SELECTION);
            tree.setShowsRootHandles(false);
            JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(tree);
            setLayout(new GridLayout(1,0));
            add(scrollPane);
        /** Remove all nodes except the root node. */
        public void clear() {
            rootNode.removeAllChildren();
            treeModel.reload();
        /** Remove the currently selected node. */
        public void removeCurrentNode() {
            TreePath currentSelection = tree.getSelectionPath();
            if (currentSelection != null) {
                DefaultMutableTreeNode currentNode = (DefaultMutableTreeNode)
                             (currentSelection.getLastPathComponent());
                MutableTreeNode parent = (MutableTreeNode)(currentNode.getParent());
                if (parent != null) {
                    treeModel.removeNodeFromParent(currentNode);
                    return;
        public void removeObject(DefaultMutableTreeNode child) {
             treeModel.removeNodeFromParent(child);
    //         treeModel.reload();
        /** Add child to the currently selected node. */
        public DefaultMutableTreeNode addObject(Object child) {
            DefaultMutableTreeNode parentNode = null;
            TreePath parentPath = tree.getSelectionPath();
            if (parentPath == null) {
                parentNode = rootNode;
            } else {
                parentNode = (DefaultMutableTreeNode)
                             (parentPath.getLastPathComponent());
            return addObject(parentNode, child, true);
        public DefaultMutableTreeNode addObject(DefaultMutableTreeNode parent,
                                                Object child) {
            return addObject(parent, child, false);
        public DefaultMutableTreeNode addObject(DefaultMutableTreeNode parent,
                                                Object child,
                                                boolean shouldBeVisible) {
            DefaultMutableTreeNode childNode =
                    new DefaultMutableTreeNode(child);
            if (parent == null) {
                parent = rootNode;
            treeModel.insertNodeInto(childNode, parent,
                                     parent.getChildCount());
            // Make sure the user can see the lovely new node.
            if (shouldBeVisible) {
                tree.scrollPathToVisible(new TreePath(childNode.getPath()));
            return childNode;
        class MyTreeModelListener implements TreeModelListener {
            public void treeNodesChanged(TreeModelEvent e) {
                DefaultMutableTreeNode node;
                node = (DefaultMutableTreeNode)
                         (e.getTreePath().getLastPathComponent());
                 * If the event lists children, then the changed
                 * node is the child of the node we've already
                 * gotten.  Otherwise, the changed node and the
                 * specified node are the same.
                try {
                    int index = e.getChildIndices()[0];
                    node = (DefaultMutableTreeNode)
                           (node.getChildAt(index));
                } catch (NullPointerException exc) {}
                System.out.println("The user has finished editing the node.");
                System.out.println("New value: " + node.getUserObject());
            public void treeNodesInserted(TreeModelEvent e) {
            public void treeNodesRemoved(TreeModelEvent e) {
            public void treeStructureChanged(TreeModelEvent e) {
        public DefaultTreeModel getModel() {
             return treeModel;
    * Created on Sep 24, 2006
    import java.awt.Frame;
    import java.awt.Image;
    import javax.swing.JComponent;
    * Generic Dialog for allowing a user to browse
    * his filesystem for an image file. Dialog
    * displays a preview of the image (if it is in fact
    * displayable).
    * @author Josh Feldman
    public class ImageChooser extends JComponent implements ImageUpdater{
         private Frame parent = null;
         public ImageChooser(Frame parent) {
              super();
              this.parent = parent;
         public Image getSelectedImage() {
              ImageChooserDialog dialog = new ImageChooserDialog(parent);
              if (dialog.showDialog() == ImageChooserDialog.OK_OPTION) {
                   return dialog.getSelectedImage();
              return null;
    }  //  @jve:decl-index=0:visual-constraint="10,10"
    * Created on Sep 24, 2006
    import java.awt.Frame;
    import java.awt.Image;
    import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
    import javax.swing.JDialog;
    import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
    import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
    import javax.swing.JPanel;
    import javax.swing.JLabel;
    import javax.swing.JTextField;
    import javax.swing.JButton;
    * Class that displays a dialog that allows a user
    * to browse his/her filesystem for an image file
    * for selection.
    * @author Josh Feldman
    public class ImageChooserDialog extends JDialog {
         private Frame parent = null;
         private JFileChooser fileChooser = new JFileChooser();
         private int option;
         public final static int OK_OPTION = 1;
         public final static int CANCEL_OPTION = 2;
         private Image selectedImage = null;
         private javax.swing.JPanel jContentPane = null;
         private JPanel previewPanel = null;
         private JLabel jLabel = null;
         private JTextField filenameTextField = null;
         private JButton browseButton = null;
         private JButton cancelButton = null;
         private JButton okButton = null;
         private JLabel previewLabel = null;
          * This is the default constructor
         public ImageChooserDialog(Frame parent) {
              super();
              this.parent = parent;
              this.setTitle("Select Image");
              initialize();
         public ImageChooserDialog(Frame parent, String title) {
              super();
              this.parent = parent;
              this.setTitle(title);
              initialize();
          * This method initializes this
          * @return void
         private void initialize() {
              this.setModal(true);
              this.setSize(377, 246);
              this.setContentPane(getJContentPane());
              this.setVisible(false);
              this.setLocationRelativeTo(parent);
              this.addWindowListener(new java.awt.event.WindowAdapter() {
                   public void windowClosing(java.awt.event.WindowEvent e) {
                        selectedImage = null;
                        option = CANCEL_OPTION;
          * This method initializes jContentPane
          * @return javax.swing.JPanel
         private javax.swing.JPanel getJContentPane() {
              if(jContentPane == null) {
                   jLabel = new JLabel();
                   jContentPane = new javax.swing.JPanel();
                   jContentPane.setLayout(null);
                   jLabel.setBounds(87, 192, 58, 10);
                   jLabel.setText("Preview");
                   jContentPane.add(getPreviewPanel(), null);
                   jContentPane.add(jLabel, null);
                   jContentPane.add(getFilenameTextField(), null);
                   jContentPane.add(getBrowseButton(), null);
                   jContentPane.add(getCancelButton(), null);
                   jContentPane.add(getOkButton(), null);
              return jContentPane;
          * This method initializes previewPanel     
          * @return javax.swing.JPanel     
         private JPanel getPreviewPanel() {
              if (previewPanel == null) {
                   previewPanel = new JPanel();
                   previewLabel = new JLabel();
                   previewPanel.setLayout(null);
                   previewPanel.setLocation(25, 62);
                   previewPanel.setSize(172, 125);
                   previewPanel.setBorder(javax.swing.BorderFactory.createBevelBorder(javax.swing.border.BevelBorder.LOWERED));
                   previewLabel.setText("");
                   previewLabel.setLocation(2, 2);
                   previewLabel.setSize(172, 125);
                   previewPanel.add(previewLabel, null);
              return previewPanel;
          * This method initializes jTextField     
          * @return javax.swing.JTextField
         private JTextField getFilenameTextField() {
              if (filenameTextField == null) {
                   filenameTextField = new JTextField();
                   filenameTextField.setBounds(26, 17, 212, 23);
                   filenameTextField.setEditable(false);
              return filenameTextField;
          * This method initializes jButton     
          * @return javax.swing.JButton     
         private JButton getBrowseButton() {
              if (browseButton == null) {
                   browseButton = new JButton();
                   browseButton.setBounds(254, 18, 102, 21);
                   browseButton.setText("Browse");
                   browseButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
                        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e) { 
                             ImageFilter imageFilter = new ImageFilter();
                             fileChooser.setFileFilter(imageFilter);
                             int value = fileChooser.showOpenDialog(ImageChooserDialog.this);
                             if (value == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
                                  File selected = fileChooser.getSelectedFile();
                                  if (selected.canRead()) {
                                       try {
                                            BufferedImage bi = ImageIO.read(selected);
                                            selectedImage = bi;
                                            Image scaled = bi.getScaledInstance(
                                                      previewPanel.getWidth(), previewPanel.getHeight(), BufferedImage.SCALE_FAST);
                                            ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon(scaled);
                                            previewLabel.setIcon(imageIcon);
                                            filenameTextField.setText(selected.getAbsolutePath());
                                       } catch (IOException e1) {
                                            previewLabel.setText("Preview unavailable...");
                                            selectedImage = null;
                                            e1.printStackTrace();
              return browseButton;
          * This method initializes jButton1     
          * @return javax.swing.JButton     
         private JButton getCancelButton() {
              if (cancelButton == null) {
                   cancelButton = new JButton();
                   cancelButton.setBounds(254, 122, 100, 24);
                   cancelButton.setText("Cancel");
                   cancelButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
                        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e) {
                             selectedImage = null;
                             option = CANCEL_OPTION;
                             ImageChooserDialog.this.dispose();
              return cancelButton;
          * This method initializes jButton2     
          * @return javax.swing.JButton     
         private JButton getOkButton() {
              if (okButton == null) {
                   okButton = new JButton();
                   okButton.setBounds(256, 159, 97, 24);
                   okButton.setText("OK");
                   okButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
                        public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e) {
                             option = OK_OPTION;
                             ImageChooserDialog.this.dispose();
              return okButton;
          * Displays this chooser dialog.
          * @return - The user selected option
          *                (i.e. OK_OPTION, CANCEL_OPTION)
         public int showDialog() {
              this.setVisible(true);
              return option;
          * Returns the image chosen by the user.
          * @return
         public Image getSelectedImage() {
              return selectedImage;
    import java.io.File;
    import javax.swing.filechooser.FileFilter;
    public class ImageFilter extends FileFilter {
        //Accept all directories and all gif, jpg, tiff, or png files.
        public boolean accept(File f) {
            if (f.isDirectory()) {
                return true;
            String extension = Utils.getExtension(f);
            if (extension != null) {
                if (extension.equals(Utils.tiff) ||
                    extension.equals(Utils.tif) ||
                    extension.equals(Utils.gif) ||
                    extension.equals(Utils.jpeg) ||
                    extension.equals(Utils.jpg) ||
                    extension.equals(Utils.png)) {
                        return true;
                } else {
                    return false;
            return false;
        //The description of this filter
        public String getDescription() {
            return "Just Images";
    * Created on Sep 24, 2006
    import java.awt.Image;
    * Contract that specifies how a class can update
    * the view in its graphical display.
    * @author Josh Feldman
    public interface ImageUpdater {
         public Image getSelectedImage();
    * Created on Nov 4, 2006
    import java.awt.Image;
    import java.awt.Toolkit;
    import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
    import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
    import java.io.File;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.rmi.Naming;
    import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
    import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
    import javax.swing.JButton;
    import javax.swing.JFrame;
    import javax.swing.JLabel;
    import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
    import javax.swing.JPanel;
    import javax.swing.JPasswordField;
    import javax.swing.JTextField;
    public class LoginFrame extends JFrame {
         private String serverName = "//Broom:5001/IMServer";
         private ServerInter serverInter = null;
         // The icon to be used when this frame is minimized
         private Image icon;
         // The main image to be displayed on this frame
         private Image robotImage;
         private javax.swing.JPanel jContentPane = null;
         private JPanel imagePanel = null;
         private JLabel screenameLabel = null;
         private JTextField screenameTextField = null;
         private JPanel jPanel1 = null;
         private JLabel passwordLabel = null;
         private JPasswordField passwordTextField = null;
         private JButton signonButton = null;
         private JButton helpButton = null;
          * This is the default constructor
         public LoginFrame() {
              initialize();
          * This method initializes this
          * @return void
         private void initialize() {
              this.setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
              this.setResizable(false);
              this.setSize(210, 368);
              this.setContentPane(getJContentPane());
              this.setTitle("Sign On");
              try {
                   this.setIconImage(ImageIO.read(new File("images/robby3.jpg")));
              } catch (IOException e) {
                   e.printStackTrace();
              this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
              this.setVisible(true);
          * This method initializes jPanel     
          * @return javax.swing.JPanel     
         private JPanel getImagePanel() {
              if (imagePanel == null) {
                   imagePanel = new JPanel();
                   imagePanel.setBounds(7, 7, 190, 159);
                   imagePanel.setBorder(javax.swing.BorderFactory.createLineBorder(java.awt.Color.gray,0));
                   try {
                        BufferedImage bi =
                             ImageIO.read(
                                       getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("images/robby_big.bmp"));
                        Image scaled = bi.getScaledInstance(190, 169, BufferedImage.SCALE_FAST);
                        JLabel robotLabel = new JLabel(
                                  new ImageIcon(scaled));
                        imagePanel.add(robotLabel);
                   } catch (IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
              return imagePanel;
          * This method initializes jTextField     
          * @return javax.swing.JTextField     
         private JTextField getScreenameTextField() {
              if (screenameTextField == null) {
                   screenameTextField = new JTextField();
                   screenameTextField.setBounds(22, 208, 168, 20);
                   screenameTextField.addKeyListener(new java.awt.event.KeyAdapter() {  
                        public void keyTyped(java.awt.event.KeyEvent e) {
                             if (!isAllowedCharacter(e.getKeyChar())) {
                                  e.consume();
                                  Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().beep();
                        public void keyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent e) {
                             int keycode = e.getKeyCode();
                             if(keycode == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER && signonButton.isEnabled()) {
                                  signonButton.doClick();
                                  passwordTextField.setText("");
                             else if (keycode == KeyEvent.VK_ESCAPE) {
                                  dispose();
                                  System.exit(0);
                        public void keyReleased(java.awt.event.KeyEvent e) {
                             String screename = screenameTextField.getText();
                             char [] password = passwordTextField.getPassword();
                             if (screename.equals("") ||
                                       password.length <= 0) {
                                  signonButton.setEnabled(false);
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