Chapter 20. The OMG Event Service
20.1 Chapter Overview
This chapter describes the OMG Event Service, which allows applications to use a decoupled communications model rather than strict client-to-server synchronous request invocations. After the introduction, we explain in Section 20.3 why using the Event Service can be beneficial to applications by discussing the pros and cons of distributed callbacks. Section 20.4 defines the event delivery models that event-based applications can employ. Section 20.5 shows the IDL interfaces supplied by the Event Service, and Section 20.6 provides examples of how to implement the event delivery models. Finally, Sections 20.7 and 20.8 discuss how to choose the best event model for your application and describe ...
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