[omniORB] Can omniORB be initialized twice by the same applic ation?

[Theo Aukerman]

I believe the omniORB documentation states that you can do this.

Further support is given by the first few lines of the (2.7.1) ORB_init
routine pasted below.

______________________________________________________
  omni_mutex_lock sync(internalLock);

  if (!parse_ORB_args(argc,argv,orb_identifier)) {
    throw CORBA::INITIALIZE(0,CORBA::COMPLETED_NO);
  }
  if (orb)
    return CORBA::ORB::_duplicate(orb);
______________________________________________________

They lock a mutex (thread safety).
If the orb has been initialized, they return a duplicate, rather than
re-initialize.

I hope 2.8 and 3.0 behave similarly.

Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean-Francois Tremblay
[mailto:Jean-Francois.Tremblay@discreet.com]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 7:45 AM
To: Omniorb List
Subject: [omniORB] Can omniORB be initialized twice by the same
application?


Hi,

the title says it all! :)

Here's my problem I'm working on libraries that uses Corba that are
required to build an application. But there is somebody else working on
the same application which is already using Corba and thus initializing
it. My library is not yet ready to be link to this application but I'm
wondering if this (2 initializations) will be problematic to omniORB
(2.7.1)?

Thanks for any advice?


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