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# The omniORB2 version 2.8
User's Guide

#### Sai-Lai Lo
( email: slo@uk.research.att.com)
David Riddoch
( email: djr@uk.research.att.com)
AT&T Laboratories Cambridge

22nd Sept, 1999

#### Changes and Additions, 22nd Sept 1999

- chapter 2 - added description on BOA and ORB shutdown.
- Chapter 4 - updates to command-line options
- Chapter 7 - updates to idle connection shutdown. Added desciption on the new remote call timeout feature.

#### Changes and Additions, 1st July 1999

- Chapter 1 - updates to features and setup information
- Chapter 3 - added notes on incompatibility with pre-omniORB 2.8.0 releases.
- Chapter 4 - updates to command-line options and configuration variables.
- Chapter 5 - new command-line option
- Chapter 9 - updates on the new Any and TypeCode behaviour and added notes on incompatibility with pre-omniORB 2.8.0 releases.
- Chapter 10 - added note to indicate that the implementation has not been updated to CORBA 2.3 yet.
- Chapter 11 - added note on the change in the default value of `CORBA::diiThrowsSysExceptions`.
- Chapter 12 - added note to indicate that the implementation has not been updated to CORBA 2.3 yet. Added note on new way to pass system exception back in the `invoke()` method.

#### Changes and Additions, 8th June 1999

- Chapter 9 - correction, recursive TypeCodes are supported
- Chapter 11 - correction, usage of CORBA::ORB::create_foo()

#### Changes and Additions, 22nd February 1999

- Chapter 11 - expanded and updated

#### Changes and Additions, 30 Sept 1998

- Chapter 1 - updates to features and setup information
- Chapter 2 - new example on tie implementation templates
- Chapter 4 - updates to command-line options and a new section on initial object reference bootstrapping.
- Chapter 5 - new section on-demand object loading
- Chapter 7 - new runtime configuration variable `omniORB::maxTcpConnectionPerServer`.
- New chapter - Dynamic Management of Any Values

- Contents
- Introduction
- The Basics
- IDL to C++ Language Mapping
- The omniORB2 API
- The Basic Object Adaptor (BOA)
- Interface Type Checking
- Connection Management
- Proxy Objects
- Type Any and TypeCode
- Dynamic Management of Any Values
- The Dynamic Invocation Interface
- The Dynamic Skeleton Interface
- hosts_access(5)
- References

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