[NSWI080] HW 2 - questions

[Vlastimil Dort]

Dear Petr Šťavík,

 1. The POA is synchronized internally by omniORB. You would need synchronization if you kept some non-local data. For example, you may store pointers to servants in a global container so that you can deallocate them later even if the client does not call the disconnect operation.
 2. You can observe the behavior of the provided server and implement your server to behave similarly. The purpose of the idle attribute is to show how readonly attributes are used and implemented. Although always returning true follows the protocol, it is not an interesting implementation, because then the client can get away with not checking the attribute at all. For example, our server starts returning true 5 seconds after creation of the instance. You could also use a counter to return true after a few times of returning false. Any implementation where the client has to wait a little bit and the server can check that the client waited would be great.

Vlastimil Dort

Dne 29.03.2019 v 16:19 Petr Šťavík napsal(a):
> Hello, I have a few questions about the second assignment.
>
> Firstly - I don't really understand the following note in the task 6 "Do not forget that with the default POA policy, methods of server_i are executed in multiple threads and thus proper snychronization is required". In my server implementation, there is no data that could be shared among multiple threads, so I am not sure what to synchronize here. Maybe - do you mean that we should synchronize access to the default CORBA structures like POA table as they are not thread-safe (that means synchronizing method call like _this() which registers the object)?
>
> Secondly - I am not sure how to implement few server methods, like the Idle method. Instance returned to the client by connect method is exclusive for that client, so it is always idle. Or am I getting something wrong?
>
> Thank you for your answers.
>
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