Role of a Naming Service in the Connection Process

Overview of connection steps

The connection process involves the following three steps:

1. Get a CORBA stub.

2. Create a Properties object for passing parameters to the connect method.

3. Call the connect method.

See Chapter 3 for a description of these steps.

How a naming service is used in the connection steps

A naming service locates an object, such as an OLAP service, that is accessible in the CORBA environment. A naming service is involved only in the first of the three connection steps, when you are getting a CORBA stub.

Different naming services on different platforms

Chapter 3 describes the code for getting a CORBA stub using the Oracle CORBA naming service. However, on some platforms, you should write code that uses the VisiBroker Smart Agent naming service instead. The rest of this appendix describes the code for getting the CORBA stub using VisiBroker Smart Agent.

See the read me file for your installation of OLAP Services for information about whether the procedures described in this appendix are relevant on your platform.