About cookies on this site Our websites require some cookies to function properly (required). In addition, other cookies may be used with your consent to analyze site usage, improve the user experience and for advertising. For more information, please review your options. By visiting our website, you agree to our processing of information as described in IBM’sprivacy statement. To provide a smooth navigation, your cookie preferences will be shared across the IBM web domains listed here.
Publication
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Paper
The design of a stub generator for heterogeneous RPC systems
Abstract
A stub generator is a tool used to support distributed applications communicating via remote procedure calls. A stub generator generates stubs, which serve as local agents acting on behalf of remote callers and callees. We describe a novel stub generator design which supports RPCs between programs written in different programming languages and running on machines of different architectures. The stub generation includes determining procedure interface compatibility and determining whether format representation conversion is possible. Both direct and indirect conversion schemes are supported. Stubs are constructed from language-dependent templates that capture the essential syntactic and semantic structure of data types in the supported language. The stub generator itself is language independent. Marshaling and unmarshaling of scalar and composite data types, including recursive or pointer-based data types, are supported. © 1991.