“In Part I of this series on CORBA, we presented a brief look at
CORBA, what it is and how it used. In Part II we are going to look
at two advanced features of CORBA. The first feature we are going
to look at deals with the advanced data structures supported by the
CORBA IDL. In particular, we are going to look at sequences and
unions. The second feature deals with the CORBA services included
as part of the CORBA standard. In particular, we are going to look
at the CORBA Naming Service and how it can be used to located CORBA
objects.“Anyone who has programmed using the C or C++ languages knows
that pointers and, in the case of C++, references, are valuable
tools for manipulating and processing data. Because CORBA objects
are global objects and may exist in different address spaces, data
pointers cannot be passed between objects. For example, a linked
list structure in one object cannot be passed to another object as
part of a method invocation…”
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