[omniORB] Servant and it's implementation

[Duncan Grisby]

On Sunday 20 July, Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath wrote:

> I am experimenting with mico, omni, and a couple of Java orbs.  When
> I compile idl to Java, there is an interfacePOA class that is
> generated.  The servantImpl inherits this class, thus enabling one
> to store servantImpl in a variable of type interfacePOA and then, if
> needed, cast this variable back to servantImpl type.  However, I
> could not find a similar mechanism when I compiled idl to C++.

The C++ mapping is exactly the same except that the servant base class
is called POA_Interface instead of interfacePOA. You then use
dynamic_cast<> to dynamically cast to your servant implementation
class.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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