14.9.1.4 Description

This member function indicates that the caller will no longer access the reference so that associated resources may be deallocated. If the specified object reference is nil, the release operation does nothing. If the ORB instance release is the last reference to the ORB, then the ORB will be shut down prior to its destruction. This is the same as calling ORB_shutdown prior to calling CORBA::release. This only applies to the release member function called on the ORB.

This member function may not throw CORBA exceptions.