Checklist

If you plan to use OAF for your own CORBA servers, you should use the following simple checklist.

• Create a unique UUID for your CORBA server by using libuuid and uuidgen (both are available by anonymous ftp from tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs. These are part of the e2fsprogs package.

• Create a proper .oafinfo file for your server describing its IDL interfaces, its main properties and the way it is to be activated.

• Call oaf_init (make sure you do not initialize twice by calling oaf_is_initialized). Then, call oaf_active_server_register to register yourself as running to the OAF daemon.

If you are a client willing to activate a few servers, it is a little simpler: you just must make sure you call the oaf_init function and you can then call oaf_query or oaf_activate or oaf_activate_from_id.

Here, put a real-life example of a client and a server.