February 2001
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CORBA - Reference Counting
We’ve been developing code on Windows and Unix for quite some time, but most of the distributed component work we’ve been involved in has been done using COM. That’s changing now as clients have more requirements for Unix … -
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CORBA - More Reference Counting
Although we managed to develop a working solution in the first CORBA reference counting article the results were ugly and fragile. In this article we attempt to clean things up a little and, in doing so, get intimate with the Portable … -
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CORBA - Reference Counting Issues
At the end of the second article we have developed a self contained reference counting implementation that appears to work. Unfortunately, it’s still far from reliable as CORBA doesn’t provide the level of support for reference … -
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CORBA - Enumeration
CORBA provides sequences as a way of returning collections of items from an method call. The problem with just using unbounded sequences is that the client has no control over how many items it receives as a result of the call. COM gets … -
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CORBA - Iteration
A CORBA style method of enumeration can be seen in the iteration interfaces on the CORBA Naming Service. Given the code we’ve already written for the enumeration interface we can easily implement an iteration interface as well as (or, …