ALF — CORBA's operation invocation styles.

[Joaquin Miller] Does the messaging mode support CORBA's messaging styles?

Joaquin,

> But the three ways of invoking a procedure in CORBA are:
>
> One is synchronous, which works just as you write above.
>
> The second is asynchronous or one-way, which is not exactly
> the same as you describe above for the action semantics.
> But close enough, perhaps.

I can't tell the difference.

> The third has the silly name, deferred synchronous; it is a kind
> of asynchronous invocation.

The CORBA spec says this is a synchronous operation called
asynchronously, but the caller still has the option to get the results
at a later time. Action semantics does not support this. The
workaround would be complicated.

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