Issue 628:  POA::activate_object_with_id() and POA::create_reference_with_id()                                                                                                                                     (port-rtf)
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Nature:  Uncategorized
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Summary: Summary: The paragraphs describing when calls for these operations are NOT valid are confusing. Clarify the text to make this more obvious

Resolution:  Fixed in Rev 2.3
Revised Text: 
Actions taken:
July 16, 1997: received issue
February 22, 1999: closed issue
Discussion: 

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:31:30 -0700
From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
Organization: Seagate Software NMSG
To: issues@omg.org, port-rtf@omg.org
Subject: Portability RTF issues

2. The paragraphs describing when calls to the operations
POA::activate_object_with_id() and POA::create_reference_with_id() are
not valid are confusing:

	An ORB is not required to detect all such invalid Object Id
	values, but a portable application must not invoke
	activate_object_with_id on a POA that has the SYSTEM_ID policy
	with an Object Id value that was not previously generated by
	the system for that POA, or, if the POA also has the
	PERSISTENT policy, for a previous instantiation of the same
	POA.

This could be read as stating that calling one of these operations
with an Object Id from a previous instantiation of a POA with the
PERSISTENT lifetime policy should throw a BAD_PARAM exception, since
it is not clear where the "or" clause in the above paragraph binds.

I believe the text (after reading it a couple of dozen times) means
to allow these operations to succeed with Object Ids from a previous
POA instantiation.  Please clarify the text to make this more obvious.

Jon Biggar
jon@sems.com