[omniORB] omniorb and custom proxies

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tuesday 27 January, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> a long while ago I read about custom proxy objects
> to be used with omniORB. What's the status of this ?
> Is there currently a way for users to plug in their
> own proxy factories ? I'd like to play with a couple
> of ideas I have that require the location transparency
> paradigm to be relaxed a bit, i.e. I'd like to downcast
> from _ptr/_var types to the servants, but without the
> overhead such an operation usually incures when following
> conventional CORBA paths.

These days, you can register your own proxy object factories and they
will be used instead of the ones created by the IDL compiler.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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