Contents

• Introduction
  • Features
    • CORBA 2 compliant
    • Multithreading
    • Portability
    • Missing features
  • Setting Up Your Environment
  • Platform specific variables
• The Basics
  • The Echo Object Example
  • Specifying the Echo interface in IDL
  • Generating the C++ stubs
  • A Quick Tour of the C++ stubs
    • Object Reference
    • Object Implementation
  • Writing the object implementation
  • Writing the client
  • Example 1 - Colocated Client and Implementation
    • ORB/BOA initialisation
    • ORB/BOA shutdown
    • Object initialisation
    • Client invocation
    • Object disposal
  • Example 2 - Different Address Spaces
    • Object Implementation: Generating a Stringified Object Reference
    • Client: Using a Stringified Object Reference
    • Catching System Exceptions
    • Lifetime of an Object Implementation
  • Example 3 - Using the COS Naming Service
    • Obtaining the Root Context Object Reference
    • The Naming Service Interface
  • Example 4 - Using tie implementation templates
  • Source Listing
    • echo_i.cc
    • greeting.cc
    • eg1.cc
    • eg2_impl.cc
    • eg2_clt.cc
    • eg3_impl.cc
    • eg3_clt.cc
    • eg3_tieimpl.cc
    • dir.mk
• IDL to C++ Language Mapping
  • Incompatibilities with pre-2.8.0 releases
• The omniORB2 API
  • ORB and BOA initialisation options
  • Run-time Tracing and Diagnostic Messages
  • Server Name
  • Object Keys
  • GIOP Message Size
  • Initial Object Reference Bootstrapping
  • GIOP Lowest Common Denominator Mode
  • Trapping omniORB2 Internal Errors
• The Basic Object Adaptor (BOA)
  • BOA Initialisation
  • Object Registration
  • Object Disposal
  • BOA Shutdown
  • Unsupported functions
  • Loading Objects On Demand
• Interface Type Checking
  • Introduction
  • Basic Interface Type Checking
  • Interface Inheritance
• Connection Management
  • Background
  • The Model
  • Idle Connection Shutdown and Remote Call Timeout
  • Interoperability Considerations
  • Connection Acceptance
• Proxy Objects
  • System Exception Handlers
    • CORBA::TRANSIENT handlers
    • CORBA::COMM_FAILURE
    • CORBA::SystemException
  • Proxy Object Factories
    • Background
    • An Example
      • Define a new proxy class
      • Define a new proxy factory class
    • Further Considerations
• Type Any and TypeCode
  • Example using type Any
    • Type Any in IDL
    • Inserting and Extracting Basic Types from an Any
    • Inserting and Extracting Constructed Types from an Any
  • Type Any in omniORB2
    • Generating Insertion and Extraction Operators.
    • TypeCode comparison when extracting from an Any.
    • Object references.
    • Top-level aliases.
    • Removing aliases from TypeCodes.
    • Recursive TypeCodes.
    • Type-unsafe construction and insertion.
    • Threads and type Any.
  • TypeCode in omniORB2
    • TypeCodes in IDL.
    • orb.idl
    • Generating TypeCodes for constructed types.
    • TypeCode equality.
  • Source Listing
    • anyExample_impl.cc
    • anyExample_clt.cc
• Dynamic Management of Any Values
  • C++ mapping
  • The DynAny Interface
    • Example: extract data values from an Any
      • Iterate through the components
      • Extract basic type components
      • Extract complex components
      • Clean-up
    • Example: insert data values into an Any
      • Insert basic type components
      • Insert complex components
  • The DynStruct Interface
  • The DynSequence Interface
  • The DynArray Interface
  • The DynEnum Interface
  • The DynUnion Interface
    • Three Categories of Union
    • Example: extract data values from a union
      • Explicit default union
      • Implicit default union
      • No default union
    • Example: insert data values into a union
      • Ambiguous usage
  • Duplicate DynAny References
  • Other Operations
• The Dynamic Invocation Interface
  • Overview
  • Pseudo Objects
    • Request
    • NamedValue
    • NVList
    • Context
    • ContextList
    • ExceptionList
    • UnknownUserException
    • Environment
  • Creating Requests
    • Examples
  • Invoking Operations
    • invoke()
    • send_oneway()
    • send_deferred()
  • Multiple Requests
    • send_multiple_requests_oneway()
    • send_multiple_requests_deferred()
• The Dynamic Skeleton Interface
  • Overview
  • DSI Types
    • DynamicImplementation
    • ServerRequest
  • Creating Dynamic Implementations
    • Operations on the ServerRequest
  • Registering Dynamic Objects
  • Example
• hosts_access(5)
  • DESCRIPTION
  • ACCESS CONTROL FILES
  • ACCESS CONTROL RULES
  • PATTERNS
  • WILDCARDS
  • OPERATORS
  • SHELL COMMANDS
  • EXPANSIONS
  • SERVER ENDPOINT PATTERNS
  • CLIENT USERNAME LOOKUP
  • DETECTING ADDRESS SPOOFING ATTACKS
  • EXAMPLES
  • MOSTLY CLOSED
  • MOSTLY OPEN
  • BOOBY TRAPS
  • DIAGNOSTICS
  • FILES
  • SEE ALSO
  • BUGS
  • AUTHOR
• References