DDS15 — : #define HANDLE_TYPE_NATIVE long typedef HANDLE_TYPE_NATIVE InstanceHandle_t;

The DDS spec defines: #define HANDLE_TYPE_NATIVE long typedef HANDLE_TYPE_NATIVE InstanceHandle_t; We see that some vendors use long, other a struct containing an octet array. This is causing problems when integrating DDS into CCM. A CORBA::Long is passed by value, a struct is passed as const &. At least the way the InstanceHandle_t is passed to methods and returned should be the same. We propose to change this type to: struct NativeInstanceHandle_t

; typedef NativeInstanceHandle_t InstanceHandle_t; That way we always have a struct passed as const&.