Pure CORBA

Implementing Clients

There are two kinds of clients that can use a component-based server:

• Component-unaware clients are ordinary CORBA clients that have no knowledge of the CCM. These clients have no special features beyond the ordinary capability to invoke remote operations and attributes on IDL interfaces.

  A component-unaware client treats a component reference like an ordinary object reference and sees just the operations and attributes defined on the basic component’s supported IDL interfaces.

  Clients obtain component references in the same way as they obtain object references—using the naming service or the trading service or by reading a stringified object reference.

• Component-aware clients are those that are aware of the CCM. In practice, ...