A tie is a concept to bind a class skeleton to an implementing class. With this approach the class which should be invoked by a remote call, can be derived from a non-remoting class. Usually a tie class is used in middleware systems, to perform delegation from the skeleton to an implementing class.
Example
Usually:
Stub -remote-> Skeleton (perform logic)Tie Approach:
Stub -remote-> Tie Skeleton -delegate-> Class (perform logic)References
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