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I am experimenting with a very small (with just two business

If my C++ function is to return an object reference, I always use
_ptr as the returned type so that the caller takes over the ownership
of the returned reference. If the caller does not want to keep it,
it could always release the reference (or better yet, to copy the

I need to associate policies w/ an ORB or the remote objects that I
reference from that ORB.  Unfortunately, it seems that this is not supported
in JDK142.  Am I missing something or is there a way around this?
Regards,

I have a question about the methods  equals(...) and equivalent(...)
in the abstract class org.omg.CORBA.TypeCode. Could anyone tell me
when do I use these methods i.e. when should I use equals(...) instead
of equivalent(...) and how do I implement them accordingly.