2.5.1 Initializing the ORB

The first thing our client needs to do is to initialize the Functional Developer ORB. CORBA provides a standard operation for this, called orb_init. This is just one of many operations that ORBs must offer. The name is an IDL-style name (in fact it is a pseudo-IDL or PIDL name) that is mapped to Dylan just like the IDL we wrote for Hello World earlier. In the Functional Developer ORB this operation is invoked as corba/orb-init.

An ORB initialization call looks like this:

let orb = corba/orb-init(make(corba/<arg-list>), 
                              "Functional Developer ORB")

Ignore the arguments for the moment -- they are explained in Chapter 5. The call returns an object of class corba/<orb>. We need to keep our ORB reference around, so we bind this value to the name orb.

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Developing Component Software with CORBA - 26 May 1999