Pure CORBA

Summary

This chapter has presented the basic essentials you need to program using object references. The details of memory management were presented for the C++ language. The essential concepts of polymorphism and how to widen and narrow object references were discussed. For most of the CORBA programming you do, this level of knowledge is sufficient. You can treat object references as black boxes that give you access to the CORBA object.

If you want to uncover the detailed state of an object reference, you can stringify the object reference and parse it. Most ORBs provide some sort of utility for parsing stringified object references. The amount of information that can be stored in the object reference is open ended. An IOR can contain any number ...