Corba Client-side Servant inheritance

Question

hi there,
I'm a student computer science and while running a project we encountered the following problem we couldn't solve(neither could our teachers an neither could the internet come up with anything usefull)
we tried to make a distributed program using Corba and Idl. in our design the servant class on the client side inherits functions of another servant on the client side. this way we couldn't use the "extends _implbase" way. the idea behind it was to use polymorhism with the client-side servant objects. the search for the holy grail had begun.
All over the net there were sollutions for making a Tie construction and thus being able to do create a similar design. it needed adjustement in the Server-class and the Server's servant.
And that was the problem. how to do it on the Client-side.
does anyone have an idea or example what changes I should make in the Client-class to be able to let the servant implement the operations class of the used interface?

Answer 1

I'm not sure I really understand your question, but let me try to restate it:
The client side is also a CORBA remote object (servant), perhaps for callbacks. How do you provide different implementations without subclassing an implBase?
You kind of answered it yourself. Use the tie approach.
idlj -fallTIE your.idlWon't that do it? Your client servant is really just a proxy which passes the calls to the local object which implements the operations interface, and can therefore inherit from whatever class.
Am I missing something?