Programming CORBA with Orbacus on Linux

General CORBA methods

• The _ptr classes
• The _var classes
• Mixed use of both reference types
• General functions generated by the IDL compiler
• Function call in CORBA

Client issues

• Getting server references

Server issues

• Publishing server references
• Activate servants
• POA creation and usage

Orbacus

• Compiling, linking and executing with Orbacus, C++
• Using Orbacus with Java

Working examples

• Simple client/server pair uses file-based IORs, the root POA and implicit activation via _this()
• Simple client/server pair uses file-based IORs, the root POA and explicit activation
• Simple client/server pair uses file-based IORs, a custom POA and explicit activation with object IDs
• Simple client/server pair uses CosNaming naming service for resolving remote references, the root POA and implicit activation
• Simple client/server pair uses CORBALOC for resolving remote references, a custom POA and explicit activation with object ID
• Simple client/server pair uses file-based IORs, the root POA and implicit activation, demonstrates factories
• Simple client/server pair uses file-based IORS for resolving remote references, a custom POA and explicit activation with object ID. The server is started and registered by an IMR.

References

Literature

• M. Henning, S. Vinoski, Advanced CORBA Programming with C++, Addison-Wesley. A very good book about programming CORBA in C++. All I needed to know I learned from this book :-)