[omniORB] Asynchronous calls

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 9 December, "Gary D. Duzan" wrote:

>    That it works is a side-effect of the fact that it uses IIOP as a
> transport. In fact, it won't always work. If the server is busy, the

The most obvious other case when oneway calls will `block' is if the
server is in the same address space as the client. Such calls are
just C++ virtual function calls, so the client call won't return until
the server operation finishes.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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