Product: OpenFusion Naming Service

Version: ALL

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Why to use the Naming Service?

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The Naming Service is one of the preferred mechanisms of exposing CORBA objects for others to find.

The Naming Service supports a hierarchical name space, similar to that used by file systems on Unix and Microsoft Windows operating systems. This allows you to create 'folders' (called naming contexts) that contain other 'folders' and objects.

The Naming Service is often compared with the telephone white pages, in that objects register themselves by name so that other objects can locate them. Together with the Trading Service (which is comparable with the telephone yellow pages), these two services are the preferred ways to locate objects and bootstrap a distributed application.

The Naming and Trading Services can be resolved in a standard way via the ORB runtime system, i.e. using the resolve_initial_references( ) operation.