Interoperable Object Reference
When developing a CORBA application, you usually encounter object references in the form of an object instance (a C++ object or a Java object). There are occasions, however, when object references have to be converted to a stream of bytes:
When marshalling an object reference for transmission as a parameter or return value in an IIOP message (see Chapter 16, “Internet Inter-ORB Protocol”).
When CORBA::ORB::object_to_string() is called to stringify a given reference.
The use of object_to_string() is of particular interest in this chapter. It is easy to dump the state of an object reference into a string by calling object_to_string(). The information that can be extracted from the resulting string is often very helpful ...
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