OA Technology
  • 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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