Pure CORBA

Factory Objects

In distributed systems, clients are often required to create objects on remote servers. For example, a customer at a bank needs to create an Account object when opening a new account. Something like a remote constructor is what is needed. Java and C++ both support constructor methods, but the constructors are not remotely accessible.

The solution to the problem of creating remote objects is to use a factory design pattern. This involves defining a factory interface in IDL that can create and manage object references of a particular type. No new features are introduced to help define factory objects. It is simply a design pattern that uses standard IDL syntax.

Consider, for example, a client in a financial application needs to ...