[omniORB] Destructor and Factories

[Martin Renner]

Hi.

I have a CORBA-Object that creates another object for my clients (it's a
factory). The implementation of the factory looks like that:

Test_ptr TestFactory_i::createTest()
{
    Test_i * corbaTest =3D new Test_i();
    corbaTest->_obj_is_ready(_boa);
    Test_i::_duplicate(corbaTest);
    // refCount=3D2
    return corbaTest;
}

The client invokes this methode in the following manner:
{
    Test_var t1 =3D factory->createTest();
}


Now, I have one problem: On the server-side, the destructor of "Test_i" is
never called. After returning the reference to the client, the reference
count of "Test_i" is decremented to 1 (okay). But how can I delete this
object, when it is not any longer used by the client?

In my opinion, the object on the server-side should be deleted after the
last client-proxy is deleted (that is, when the client called
CORBA::release()). The client-proxy should decrement the reference count on
the server side to 0. Otherwise, there's no way for the server to detect,
when a reference, that was passed to a client, is not any longer used.



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