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OMG defined CORBA Naming Service to provide a basic service location
mechanism for CORBA systems. CosNaming manages a hierarchy of
name-to-object-reference mappings. Anything, but typically the server
process hosting an object, may bind an object reference with a name in
the Naming Service by providing the name and object
reference. Interested parties (typically clients) can then use the
Naming Service to resolve a name to an object reference.
More recently, CORBA Naming Service was subsumed/extended by the CORBA
Interoperable Naming Service, a.k.a. INS. INS inherits all the
functionality from the original Naming Service specification in
addition to addressing some its shortcomings. In particular, INS
defines a standard way for clients and servers to locate the Naming
Service itself. It also allows the ORB to be administratively
configured for bootstrapping to services not set up with the orb at
install time. |