5.3.5.5 Description

The list_factories method is called by an application to obtain a list of the factory objects currently registered with the FactoryFinder. The method returns both the key used to register the factory, as well as a reference to the factory object.

The number of factories returned by list_factories will be one more than the ones registered by the user. For example, if the user registered four factories then the number of factories returned by list_factories will be five.

Note:

This change in behavior is because the OMG Transaction Service specification version 1.1 in section 2.1.2 specifies that the Transaction Factory is located using the FactoryFinder interface of the Life Cycle Service. Hence the Transaction factory is registered internally by the product with the FactoryFinder.