Chapter 27: Using the orb Library

• 27.1 Overview
• 27.2 Passing User-Defined Objects
• 27.2.1 Defining an Object as an Opaque Type
• 27.2.2 Insertion and Extraction Operators
• 27.2.3 Communicating an Object's State with a CORBA::Request
• 27.3 Writing to a Virtual Stream Instead of a CORBA::Request
• 27.3.1 Advantages
• 27.3.2 What are RWreqistream and RWreqostream?
• 27.4 Macros that Create Insertion and Extraction Operators For You
• 27.4.1 The Insertion and Extraction Operators
• 27.4.2 RWDEFINE_OPAQUE and RWDEFINE_OPAQUE_COLLECTABLE
• 27.4.3 Example of RWDEFINE_OPAQUE
• 27.5 Passing Rogue Wave Classes as Opaque Types
• 27.5.1 Example
• 27.5.2 Rogue Wave Classes with Opaque Support
• 27.6 Using Memory Management Rules
• 27.6.1 Parameters
• 27.6.2 Memory Management Rules at a Glance
• 27.7 Passing Non-Opaque Parameters
• 27.7.1 Integers
• 27.7.2 Overloading
• 27.7.3 Nil Pointers

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