[omniORB] dispose or not dispose, that's the quest

[Ralf Walther]

Hi CORBAholics,

did you ever have problems with object construction or destruction?
Imagine following situation:
You have 20 different object classes, who don't know anything about   
CORBA.
In the next step you design for every class (for example class A) a base   
class
A_Interface_i, which inherits from a skeleton class _sk_A_Interface.
In this situation you have a low level class layer without CORBA at all
and a CORBA interface layer, which delegates all requests to the low   
level methods.

_sk_A_Interface  (idl: interface A_Interface { ...} )

      ^
      |
A_Interface_i    (this class delegates every request to appropriate   
methods in A)
      ^
      |
      A           (class A, which doesn' have any CORBA knowledge)

PROBLEM1: Every time a new Object of class A is created, it should be   
registered to the BOA
          (no problem, can be done in the constructor of A_Interface_i)
          BUT on every object the _dispose() method should be called   
instead of delete.
          Obviously, it's not allowed to call _dispose in the   
~A_Interface_i().

          The consequence is: Every CORBA object have to be constructed   
with new AND
                              the low level layer should handle CORBA   
objects via _dispose()
                              (not so pretty, isn't it?)

PROBLEM2: Temporary objects have to be created with new, too. So, the   
nice functionality
          of object destruction via 'out of scope' is not available any   
more.


I think other ORB's handle this internaly. But it should exist an   
acceptable solution for omniORB, too?

Does anybody have a good idea? Think of a pile of object classes, which   
have to be adjusted
to this omniORB mechanism.

Regards

 Ralf Walther



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