[Orbit-python-list] Re: How should O-P handle references to deactivated objects

[Jason T. <ta...@li...>]

> Say we deactivate an object through poa.deactivate_object(). If references
> were generated to that object, what happens when we try and dereference
> them?

The correct behaviour would be for the ORB to raise
CORBA.OBJECT_NOT_EXIST.

> This is a cool thing to control because we can start handling on-demand
> startup of servants and that sort of thing. IIRC CORBA does account for
> this, but I don't know how it's done, really.

I know that OAF handles on-demand server loading.  I don't think there's
any provision for this in ORBit itself, but I could be wrong.

Jason.