Incarnation (CORBA)  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump
to: navigation, search  In the general context of CORBA objects
and servants, incarnation is the act of associating a servant
with a CORBA object so that it may service requests. In other
words, incarnation provides a concrete servant form for the
virtual CORBA object (and the idea thereof). Activation and
deactivation refer only to CORBA objects, while the terms
incarnation and etherealization refer to servants. However, the
lifetimes of objects and servants are independent. You always
incarnate a servant before calling activate_object(), but the
reverse is also possible, create_reference() activates an object
without incarnating a servant, and servant incarnation is later
done on demand with a Servant Manager.