SOMDServer (default server-object class)

Every server has a server object that implements three kinds of activities:

• Creation and destruction of SOM objects

• Mapping between SOMObjects and SOMDObjects, and

• Dispatching methods on SOM objects

Additional, application-specific server methods (for initialization, server control, etc.) can be defined in a subclass of the SOMDServer class. The class of the server object to be used with a server is contained in the server's ImplementationDef.

Following are the IDL declarations of the SOMDServer operations:

// methods called by a client
   SOMObject somdCreateObj(in Identifier objclass, in string hints)

   void somdDeleteObj(in SOMObject somobj);

   SOMClass somdGetClassObj(in Identifier objclass);

// methods called by SOMOA

   SOMDObject somdRefFromSOMObj(in SOMObject somobj);

   SOMObject somdSOMObjFromRef(in SOMDObject objref);

   void somdDispatchMethod(in SOMObject somobj,
                           out somToken retValue,
                           in somId methodId,
                           in va_list ap);