[omniORB] Re: remote object references

[Bartosz Klimek]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Ji-Yong D. Chung wrote:

> Jim Moe wrote:
> 
> >>  If I create a CORBA object on the first machine, and if I want to pass 
> >> that object's remote reference to the second, can I make the first machine 
> >> obtain it, and pass it to the second host? In other words, if I create a 
> >> local corba object and obtain its CORBA object reference (created on the 
> >> localhost), can I send it off to other hosts as valid object reference? Or 
> >> is the obtained reference only good on the original host?. 
> >> 
> >   This is what the COSNaming Service is for. The server on mach #1 
> >registers itself with COSNaming. The client on mach #2 queries COSNaming 
> >for the object reference of the object it desires. 
> 
>     While your solution probably would work, IMHO, it does not quite seem "right."
(...)

I can't help commenting that. Obtaining object references from Naming   
Service is no different that obtaining them from any other CORBA server   
(from the technical point of view). So: if Naming Service can pass them to
your program, any other server can do it as well.

Best regards,

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Bartosz Klimek

Distributed Systems Research Group
   Institute of Computer Science
University of Mining and Metallurgy
         Cracow, Poland

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