[Ace-users] [tao-users] About POA Manager in TAO

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Steve,

> The POA would have to be in the ACTIVE state for the requests
> to be handed off to the installed CSD strategy.  Then, any
> queuing of requests would be handled by the specific CSD
> strategy implementation.

Ok, so does this imply that the CSD mechanism runs "atop" the POA?  Put
another way, what is the architectural relationship between CSD and the
POA?

> The thread-pool CSD strategy (TP_Strategy) that comes with TAO
> as a reference implementation does queue requests for processing
> by threads in the thread pool.  I don't believe there is any
> defined upper limit to the number of requests that can be queued.

Cool - it would be nice if we could figure out how to integrate CSD with
the POA such that the HOLDING state would queue requests!

Thanks,

        Doug