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

[Adam Mitz]

Vikram Karandikar wrote:
> Hi,
>     i have a sample application where in the "int main" mathod i am 
> creating ORB by using ORB_init.
>     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".
>     In my previous ORB they were having CORBA::ORB::_duplicate () to 
> return reference to the global ORB. But TAO does not have _duplicate 
> with no parameters, means we have to pass ORB reference to be duplicated.
>
>     Is there any way to have this work?

If you use the third parameter to ORB_init() to give the ORB a name, 
subsequent calls to ORB_init() using that same name will return a 
reference to that ORB (and will ignore argc and argv if I recall 
correctly).  I think this will work with "" as the name too (which is 
the default).

Thanks,
Adam Mitz
Software Engineer
Object Computing, Inc.