
PeriRDB User’s Guide
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The CORBA Block
The information that an application developer enters in the CORBA Block is used to
build and send a request from the application to corbaclnt. Run-time
implementation occurs through CORBAClnt, which allows invocation of and access to
class objects hosted through a CORBA server.
The CORBA block has the following fields:
Name Meaning
Mode Specifies whether the object named in this block will be handled using
an IDL Name or an IOR File query. PeriRDB currently only supports
the use of an IOR File query (Stringified Object Repository).
IOR File The file that contains the stringified Internet Object Reference (IOR),
that is, the absolute path of the file that contains a CORBA server's
specific stringified class/object. A CORBA host server can generate a
stringified object reference by using the object_to_string method of an
OMG-compliant ORB. The IOR is used by the CORBAClnt to convert
the string to an object reference handle. The object reference is used
to invoke the operation on the CORBA object. A standard Folders
menu is used to enter the IOR File field either as a Characters
datacard or as a string literal.
Invoke Operation This is where you specify operations to access a CORBA server. For
more information, see Invoking Operations With the CORBA Block on
page 53.
Return Type Here the user must specify the data type for every parameter that will
be returned by the operation. For more information on return types,
see Specifying Return Types on page 54.
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