[omniORB] Supposed behaviour of DSI

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 11 February, Victor Joukov wrote:

> I figured out that omniORB and TAO differ significantly in
> their handling of system methods, belonging to
> CORBA::Object - is_a, not_existent etc.
> 
> omniORB intercepts these methods when you inherit your
> implementation from PortableServer::DynamicImplementation,
> while TAO passes all calls to your invoke method.
> 
> I was unable to figure out who's right. Did you figured
> this out in OMG documentation, and if so, could you point
> me to it.

As far as I can find, the CORBA spec is silent on the matter, so it's
up to the interpretation of individual ORBs. In omniORB, you can
override the _is_a and _non_existent methods of your DSI servant, so
you can still implement them any way you want.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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