[Ace-users] Re: [tao-users] Reference to ORB

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Vikram,

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to.

>    i have a sample application where in the "int main" mathod i am creating
>ORB by using ORB_init.

Ok.

>    Now that variable is local to "int main", i don't want to make it
>global, but i want to get its reference in some other method say "int xyz".

Ok.

>    In my previous ORB they were having CORBA::ORB::_duplicate () to return
>reference to the global ORB. 

That is non-standard behavior.

>But TAO does not have _duplicate with no
>parameters, means we have to pass ORB reference to be duplicated.

Right, that is standard behavior.

>    Is there any way to have this work?

Sure - either

. Pass the (duplicated) ORB as a parameter to int xyz()

. Create a singleton called MySingletonORB and use this everywhere.

take care,

     Doug
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