I2JAV11 — local interface mapping underspecified

The IDL-to-Java ptc/00-11-03 specification says that an implementation
of a local interface would extend org.omg.CORBA.LocalObject instead of
org.omg.CORBA.Object. This is underspecified. It does not say
anything about the generated classes for a local interface, their
relationships, nor which one should be implemented by an
implementation. This MUST be specified for local interface
implementations to be portable.

I suggest for local interface X the following generated classes:

interface X extends XOperations, org.omg.CORBA.Object

This is similar to a non-local mapping except that it does not extend
org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity. Although that would not hurt
anything it is not necessary since a local interface cannot be
marshaled.

I suggest the following specification for implementations of local interfaces:

class XImpl
extends org.omg.CORBA.LocalObject
implements X

An instance would be create using the usual language construct:

XImpl x = new XImpl(...);

The above must be specified just like the current spec says what to do
with a POA-based implementation of a non-local interface, e.g.,:

class YImpl extends YPOA

see below