Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 19 1999
| CORBA dynamic invocation uses an object called a request to hold everything pertinent to an invocation: the object reference, the name of the operation, its parameters, and space for the result. The client builds a request object describing an operation, then calls the request's invoke method, which dispatches the request just as a stub would. When the invoke method returns, the result is available in the request object. |
| The key to dynamic invocation is the ability of requests to hold self-describing data. This facility enables a request object to represent any invocation of any operation, regardless of its parameters are. |
| Note that under dynamic invocation, the existence of a server skeleton does not necessarily imply the existence of a client. |