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Chapters

• The Orber Application
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  • Content Overview
  • Brief Description of the User's Guide
• Introduction to Orber
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  • Overview
• The Orber Application
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  • ORB Kernel and IIOP
  • The Object Request Broker (ORB)
  • Internet Inter-Object Protocol (IIOP)
• Interface Repository
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  • Interface Repository(IFR)
• Installing Orber
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  • Installation Process
  • Configuration
  • Firewall Configuration
  • Interface Configuration
• OMG IDL to Erlang Mapping
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  • OMG IDL to Erlang Mapping - Overview
  • OMG IDL Mapping Elements
  • Getting Started
  • Basic OMG IDL Types
  • Template OMG IDL Types and Complex Declarators
  • Constructed OMG IDL Types
  • Scoped Names and Generated Files
  • Typecode, Identity and Name Access Functions
  • References to Constants
  • References to Objects Defined in OMG IDL
  • Exceptions
  • Access to Attributes
  • Invocations of Operations
  • Implementing the DB Application
  • Reserved Compiler Names and Keywords
  • Type Code Representation
• CosNaming Service
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  • Overview of the CosNaming Service
  • The Basic Use-cases of the Naming Service
  • Interoperable Naming Service
• How to use security in Orber
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  • Security in Orber
• Orber Stubs/Skeletons
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  • Orber Stubs and Skeletons Description
• CORBA System and User Defined Exceptions
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  • System Exceptions
  • User Defined Exceptions
  • Throwing Exceptions
  • Catching Exceptions
• Orber Interceptors
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  • Using Interceptors
  • Interceptor Example
• OrberWeb
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  • Using OrberWeb
  • Starting OrberWeb
• Debugging
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  • Tools and FAQ

4 Interface Repository

4.1  Interface Repository(IFR)

The IFR is an interface repository built on the Mnesia application. Orber uses the IFR for some type-checking when coding/decoding IIOP. The IFR is capable of storing all interfaces and declarations of OMG IDL.

The interface repository is mainly used for dynamical interfaces, and as none are currently supported this function is only really used for retrieving information about interfaces.

Functions relating to the manipulation of the IFR including, initialization of the IFR, as well as, locating, creating and destroying initial references are detailed further in the Manual Pages.