5.3.1.6 Description

The find_factories method is called by an application to obtain a sequence of factory object references. The operation is passed a key used to identify the desired factory. The key is a name, as defined by the CORBAservices Naming service. More than one factory may match the key, and, if that is the case, the FactoryFinder returns a sequence of factories.

The scope of the key is the FactoryFinder. The FactoryFinder assigns no semantics to the key. It simply matches keys. It makes no guarantees about the interface or implementation of the returned factories or objects they create.

Key values are considered equal if they are of equal length (same number of elements in the sequence), and if every NameComponent value in the key matches the corresponding NameComponent value at the exact same location in the key that was specified when the reference to the factory object was registered.