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To call a method on a remote machine, a surrogate method is set up for you on the local machine, called the stub.
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It packages the parameters, resolving local references. This is called marshalling the parameters:
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device-independent encoding of numbers
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strings and objects may have local memory references and so are passed by object serialization
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The stub builds an information block with
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An identifier of the remote object to be used
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An operation number, describing the method to be called
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The marshalled parameters
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Stubs will also "unmarshall" return values after the call and receive RemoteExceptions. It will throw the exceptions in the local space.
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