- Describing the POA requires some new vocabulary.
- Each term will be reprented by a class in the POA.
- Servant
- The ORB is responsible forwarding invocations on object references to the appropriate implementation
- The implementation entity is called the Servant
- Object implementors objects often think the Servant is the CORBA Object
- Object Reference
- The object reference is a class instantiated by the ORB, generated by the stubber.
- To CORBA programmers, object references are CORBA objects
- Object ID
- The object ID is an opaque value which tells the OA which CORBA object is desired.
- These three are a trio.
- The OA's job is Activation...
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