10.1 Structure and Usage
The Interface Repository consists of two distinct components: the database and the server. The server performs operations on the database.
The Interface Repository database is created and populated using the idl2ir administrative command. For a description of this command, see the Oracle Tuxedo Command Reference and Oracle® Tuxedo Application Configuration Guide. From the programmer’s point of view, there is no write access to the Interface Repository. None of the write operations defined by CORBA are supported, nor are set operations on nonread-only attributes.
Read access to the Interface Repository database is always through the Interface Repository server; that is, a client reads from the database by invoking methods that are performed by the server. The read operations as defined by the CORBA Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification, Revision 2.4, are described in this chapter.