[omniORB] distant object destruction

[David Riddoch]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jean-Francois Tilman wrote:

> Our object uses implicit activation and we don't know its POA. Must we
> use the RootPOA ? to deactivate this object ? Or what must we do to know
> the used POA ? How to obtain the ObjectID to call deactivate_object()
> method ?

The ORB decides which POA to use for implicit activation by calling the
_default_POA() method on the servant.  This is a virtual method, and if
you do not override the default, it will be the RootPOA.

I assume you have a pointer to the servant, so the following should work:

  PortableServer::POA_var poa = servant->_default_POA();
  PortableServer::ObjectId_var id = poa->servant_to_id(servant);
  poa->deactivate_object(id);


Hope that helps,
David



PS. I think I've said before on this list that I think that implicit
activation is a very bad idea.  Using it is a great way to make your
programs hard to follow, and to introduce bugs.