The Orbix daemon process is used for the initial connection establishment (bootstrapping) between a CORBA client and a CORBA server, and can if necessary launch the registered server on demand if it is not already running. Information about CORBA servers is stored in the the Implementation Repository (IMR), a database of CORBA servers maintained by the Orbix daemon. The messages between client and servers are not being sent through the Orbix daemon.

After the successful connection establishment between client and server the CORBA requests are being sent between client and server only, the daemon process is not involved in sending these requests between client and server.