Method and apparatus for an improved specialization of a CORBAservices GenericFactory

摘要

A method and apparatus for implementing generic factories which are used to create objects in a distributed object-oriented programming environment. This method and apparatus are applicable to the Object Management Group (OMG) CORBAservices GenericFactory interface. A create-object method implementation is subdivided into its' elemental parts, specifically finding an appropriate factory, interacting with that factory to create the object, and initializing an object. New operations are introduced which support each of these elemental parts. This allows implementations of GenericFactories to have a higher degree of reuse then when the standard interfaces are used as is.