Understanding the POA
The POA is a powerful and flexible object adapter. In particular, it has been designed very much with scalability in mind—it is able to cope efficiently with applications that support millions of CORBA objects.
The downside of this flexibility is that the POA can appear bewilderingly complex when you approach it for the first time. It is helpful to keep in mind that the POA is not so much an object adapter as a whole family of object adapters. The designers of the POA could have specified a variety of object adapters, each with different characteristics and each suitable for different kinds of applications. Instead, they chose to define a single type of adapter, the POA, whose characteristics are defined at creation time ...
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