Product: OpenFusion Naming Service

Version: ALL

Description:

How to specify the names in the Naming Service?

Resolution:

The Naming Service provides a straightforward mechanism to support name-to-object associations.

The association between a name and an object is called a name binding.

Name bindings are, in turn, collected into sets called naming contexts. A naming context is set of name bindings where each name is unique within that context (although the same name may appear in other naming contexts). Each name binding refers to another naming context or to a CORBA object. Multiple names can be bound to the same naming context or object.

The Naming Service allows users to create, modify and examine name bindings within a naming context.

The service also supports operations to create new naming contexts as well as destroying them when they are no longer required.

Finally, the Naming Service provides support for enumerating the contents of naming contexts.