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[Matthew Newhook]

Sai-Lai Lo (S.Lo@orl.co.uk) did say on 10/29/97:
> I wonder whether it is better to let the application do the select() and
> the ORB registers its sockets and callback functions. In other words, a
> generic class library for registering sockets and callbacks may be a better
> way to integrate the ORB with other components of the applications. Could
> someone point to a design pattern that do just that?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sai-Lai
> 
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I think the pattern your looking for is the reactor pattern.  Look at
ACE (http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt).

It's worth noting that OmniBroker (http://www.ooc.com) is single threaded
and handles all of these problems quite nicely.

Matthew
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