Configuring TAO's Components

Overview

As described in the options documentation, various components in TAO can be customized by specifying options for those components. This document illustrates how to combine these options in order to affect the behavior and performance of a TAO ORB, particularly its concurrency model.

TAO configures itself using the ACE Service Configurator framework. Thus, options are specified in the familiar svc.conf file (if you want to use a different file name, use the -ORBSvcConf option). You can also setup default configurations for your programs. Please see the Programming Considerations for more detailed discussion on this.


Roadmap

Details for the following configurations are provided.

Configuring Key ORB Components


Configuration Examples

The following are common ORB configurations used by TAO applications.


Programming Considerations

There are several ways to pass option flags into TAO's components.


Configuration for Homogenous Systems


Configuration Suggestions

Choosing the right configuration is hard and, of course, depends on your application. In the following section we will attempt to describe some motivations for features in TAO, hopefully that can guide you through the choice of your configuration options.

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