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On Fri, 03 Oct 1997 09:42:50 -0400, John Poulin <poulin@ultranet.com>
wrote:

>> > So how would you work with complex result set received ?
>> Nowadays you have something called opaque, which allows you to
>> transfer
>> the object itself (if i understand correctly).
>> Haven't tried it yet, we have our own way of distributing
>> (java)objects
>> (not references) with CORBA.
>> Would like to hear from someone who has tried this opaque-ting. :)
>>
>> > Any help is very appreciated.
>> > Oleg.
>> > olegk@eclipse.net
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Greetz Vince M. Treur
>
>    As far as I understand it "opaque" is Orbix specific or currently
>ORB vendor specific.  If you pass a object by value using an opaque type
>you must handle the marshalling of the objects parametes on the server
>side, and the demarshalling of the parameters on the client side.
>
>    I have heard rumors that pass by value is soon to be an addition to
>the CORBA standard.  Does anyone know if this has been done yet?  Does
>anyone know if ORB vendors have supported it yet?


There is an OMG submission for passing value objects. also,
visigenic has a proprietary machanisim for passing objects
by value which is extensible structs, but I guess that is going
to be deprecated once the pass objects by value submission
is finalized.

-Hisham