CORBA Policies - help PLEASE

["Howard Price" <howardjprice hotmail com>]

The examples provided with ORBit seems to provide the bare minimum 
functionality rather than useful real world uses. For example, I would like 
to create a POA with persistent IORs but cannot find any example where 
anything other than the default policies are used.
I did find the following snippet
(at http://goethe.ira.uka.de/~wilhelmi/ORBit-mt/)

 CORBA_PolicyList policies;
 ...
 policies._length = 1;
 policies._buffer = g_new0(CORBA_Policy, 1);
 policies._buffer[0] = PortableServer_POA_create_thread_policy(
                         root_poa,thread_policy,&ev );

but this seems rather strange to me because the equivalent call for the
POA lifespan stuff should be:

 policies._buffer[0] =PortableServer_POA_create_lifespan_policy(
                        root_poa,PortableServer_PERSISTENT,ev);

would not possibly compile as PortableServer_POA_create_lifespan_policy 
returns a PortableServer_LifespanPolicy rather than a CORBA_Policy. Am I 
expected to cast using a "void*" ?????

Once I have an example that works, how could I go about adding it to the 
provided examples to make life easier for future generations or ORBit users?

Howard
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