_this() returns stub reference?

[Murray Cumming]

I'm trying to implement the ORBit2 C++ binding, and I've hit this
point of confusion:

The Servant's _this() method returns an object reference, for
instance:

namespace POA_hellomodule
{

class Hello
{
.. blah ...
hellomodule::Hello_ptr _this();
...blah ...
};

} //namespace

Is that a client object reference? Do all server implementations
therefore need to link in the stubs too? I think I might be
misunderstanding something fundamental here.

[Frank Pilhofer]

Murray Cumming <mur...@usa.net> wrote:
>
> The Servant's _this() method returns an object reference, for
> instance:

> Is that a client object reference?
>

Yes.

(One could of course argue that there's no such thing as a "client"
object reference, but just "object references" that can be used by
clients and servers for various purposes.)

Frank

--
Frank Pilhofer ........................................... f...@fpx.de
The great advantage of compact cars is that you can get twice as
many of them into traffic jams. - Alfred E. Neuman

[Bill Lloyd]

Typically, the skeleton files directly #include the client stub files. On
the server, you will be working with both the stub and skeleton files.

That the call to _this() is doing is converting (well, "converting" isn't
the exact right word, but...) the *servant* to an *object reference*.

-B

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