RE: CORBA question

[Philip Dawes <PhilipD parallax co uk>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Clausen [mailto:clausen@alphalink.com.au]
> Sent: 06 December 1998 20:40
> To: gnome-list
> Subject: CORBA question
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This probably sounds like an easy one:
> How does a client get an object reference for an interface?  The only
> way I can see is that the server creates the objects, and passes the
> object reference by same other means to the client (as in echo-client.
> The echo-server prints the id string, and you cut and paste that onto
> the echo-client's command-line).  Or you can use factories - but you
> still need an object reference for the factory.
> 
> Andrew Clausen
> 

Or you can have a mutually known server pass the references around. This is
how the name server works - both the client and the server know the location
of the name server (through some magic - this usually requires looking up
the server on a well known port, or passing the stringified IOR to the orb
on startup) and they use that to publish and look up references to objects.

Phil.