[omniORB] Implementation repository ?

Stefan Seefeld seefeld@sympatico.ca
Wed, 02 May 2001 15:15:43 -0400


Gary D. Duzan wrote:

>    Implementation Repositories are non-standard things, and the
> OMG is unlikely to specify them any time soon. (There may be
> something in the new CORBA Component Model that addresses this,
> but I haven't gotten into that much detail yet.) The CORBA LifeCycle
> Service could potentially be used for implementing one, but the
> one I know a bit about (Orbacus', via Michi Henning) works by
> launching processes that implement objects and issuing LOCATION_FORWARDs
> to them once they are started.


I thought that's the bit about IMRs that *is* standard, i.e. spawning 
new processes and
using LOCATION_FORWARD to redirect the client. How else can you do that 
if you
want it to be scalable (i.e. the core process to be free of any 
knowledge concerning the
types that are being served) ?.

Stefan