14.8.5.5 Description
This member function is used to determine if two object
references are equivalent, so far as the ORB can easily determine.
It returns TRUE
if your object reference is equivalent
to the object reference you pass as a parameter. If two object
references are identical, they are equivalent. Two different object
references that refer to the same object are also equivalent.
Parent topic: CORBA::Object::_is_equivalent