Pure CORBA

Summary

Once you begin using the more complicated structured types that CORBA has to offer, you inevitably have to deal with dynamically allocated memory. The CORBA C++ mapping gives you a hand with this by providing the _var types. _var types implement smart pointer functionality that helps you to avoid memory leaks. Even so, the issues surrounding memory management in a distributed system can be bewildering.

Most of the rules in this chapter could be described as nothing more than good practice in C++ programming. What is unusual about distributed programming, however, is that you are forced to work with heap-allocated data practically all of the time (with the consequent danger of memory leaks). By contrast, a typical standalone application ...