Issue 637:  Section 18.1.2: _this() and IMPLICIT_ACTIVATION need clarification (cxx_revision)
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Summary: Summary: Section states that _this() can implicitly activate servant if IMPLICIT_ACTIVATION applies. _this() does not have a way to specify which POA is to be used for the activation

Resolution:  resolved, close issue
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July 30, 1997: received issue
May 12, 1998: issue transferred from port-rtf to cxx_revision
February 19, 1999: closed issue, resolved
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:12:55 -0700
From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
Organization: Seagate Software NMSG
To: port-rtf@omg.org, issues@omg.org
Subject: _this() and IMPLICIT_ACTIVATION need clarification

Section 18.1.2 states that _this() can implicitly activate a servant
if
the IMPLICIT_ACTIVATION applies.  However, _this() does not have a way
to specify which POA is to be used for the activation.

Section 3.3.1, in the second bullet, states that "Values of type
Servant
support a language-specific programming interface that can be used by
the ORB to obtain a default POA for that servant. This interface is
used
only to support implicit activation. A language mapping may provide a
default implementation of this interface that returns the root POA of
a
default ORB."  For C++, it appears that the Servant::_default_POA()
operation is intended to provide this feature.

Sections 18.1.1 and/or 18.1.2 should explicitly state that
Servant::_default_POA() is used by the ORB to accomplish implicit
activation.

Jon Biggar
jon@sems.com