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Before an application can enter the CORBA environment, it must first:
• Be initialized into the ORB and possibly the object adapter (POA) environments.
• Operations providing access to the ORB. These operations reside in the CORBA module, but not in the ORB interface and are described in Section 4.5.1, “ORB Initialization? on page 4-25.
• Operations providing access to Object Adapters, Interface Repository, Naming Service, and other Object Services. These operations reside in the ORB interface and are described in Section 4.5.2, “Obtaining Initial Object References? on page 4-28.
• Get references to ORB pseudo-object (for use in future ORB operations) and perhaps other objects (including the root POA or some Object Adapter objects).
The following operations are provided to initialize applications and obtain the appropriate object references: