Pure CORBA

Servant Locator POA

The second kind of ServantManager object is a ServantLocator. A servant locator is used in conjunction with a POA that has no active object map. Instead of recording the association between ObjectIds and servants statically in an active object map, a servant locator is used to map dynamically between ObjectIds and servants—shown schematically in Figure 7.3(c).

Recall two major responsibilities of the POA, mentioned at the beginning of this chapter:

• Locating a servant object to service each incoming invocation request.

• Invoking the appropriate operation on the servant object as given in the invocation request.

When a servant locator is used, responsibility for locating a servant is delegated entirely to the ServantLocator object. ...