[omniORB] Interceptor interfaces

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 20 March, Brecht Vermeulen wrote:

> I don't think registering interceptors before ORB_init() would be a
> problem for our code, although maybe you loose some flexibility: at
> first sight it seems possible now to dynamically register interceptors
> during run and it wouldn't be possible anymore if you move the
> registration before ORB_init(), or am I wrong (I haven't tried this yet
> and we don't need it for now) ?

It is currently possible to register interceptors during run time, but
that is a bad thing since there isn't any concurrency control. Things
might unexpectedly blow up if a request comes in while you're changing
the interceptors.

I don't want to add concurrency control to make it safe, since that
would give everyone a performance hit. However, there's nothing to
stop the application registering an interceptor at the start that
provides its own mechanism for registering/deregistering interceptors
at run time, and does the necessary concurrency control.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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