[omniORB] newbie quick queries

[Karl Waclawek]

> Hi all,
> 
> First thing first, thank you all for your help.. it definitely helps and 
> answers quite a few questions that I may have. I might have been unclear 
> on my little test I previously describe and will try again with 
> something more specific and hopefully clearer.
> 
> Let say I wrote a simple servant object that can set the clock of the 
> machine it currently runs on. I have many machines, running different 
> OSs, all of them having that servant object up and running.
> 
> I have 1 client sitting on a box somewhere where its purpose is to set 
> the clock of any machines that have the servant object available. For 
> example, a user would enter a clock value in the client, press enter 
> then all clocks on all machine would be set to that value, or close to it.
> 
> The important part for me is to write a single object that can be 
> distributed to many machines, then accessed/controlled by one client.

Why don't you reverse the roles of client and server?
Each machine runs a client, which registers itself on the server
through some callback interface. When the time gets set on the server,
the servant loops through all registered callback interfaces and calls
a method on them which sets the time on the corresponding machine.

Karl