[omniORB] Can omniORB be initialized twice by the same application?

Duncan Grisby dgrisby@uk.research.att.com
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:28:16 +0100


On Saturday 9 October, "Doug Anderson" wrote:

[ ... Calling ORB_init() more than once ... ]

> Is this portable to other ORBs?  Does the spec say anything about
> this topic?

The spec does require that multiple calls to ORB_init() return the
same ORB reference, as long as the same ORBid is given. See section
4.6 of the 2.3 spec. Whether other ORBs actually support this is
another question, but I imagine most do.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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