[Ace-users] [ace-users] TAO/CORBA: Way to find out if a CORBA client is still alive?

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi Ant,

> Does anyone know of a way to check (on the server side, obviously)
> if a CORBA client is still alive?

There's no "built-in" way to do this,so you'd need to do this as a
"layered service".

Take care,

     Doug

> I have a CORBA servers that takes measures to ensure that only CORBA
> client at a time can do certain things. I'm using a
> thread-per-connection model and store the thread ID of a the client
> thread that is deemed the current 'owner' of a lock which must be
> acquired before some of the operations provided by my server can be
> called. When another client thread tries to acquire this lock I want
> to check if the current owner is still connected or not.  Is there a
> way to do this? I've head of the _non_existent() function but I was
> told that this requires the clients to implement a CORBA server,
> too, and this is simply not possible in my case. Thanks in advance
> for any helpful replies!
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