Chapter 7. The Portable Object Adapter
The purpose of an object adapter is to make CORBA objects accessible to CORBA clients via the network. An object adapter is analogous to a socket into which you can plug your CORBA objects. By plugging your objects into an object adapter, you effectively plug them into the network.
The primary responsibility of the object adapter is to ensure that an invocation, whether local or remote, reaches the object for which it is intended. When an object adapter receives a request message, it identifies the appropriate target object and invokes the corresponding operation on behalf of the client.
The portable object adapter (POA) is a standard object adapter described in the CORBA specification, and its programming ...
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