This section describes the IIOP facilities provided by SST. These facilities do not constitute a full CORBA ORB but they support interactions with ORBs. In particular, you can send and receive IIOP messages, construct or parse IORs, handle CORBA exceptions, and load or manipulate IDL definitions from external IDL repositories. SST's IIOP support conforms where possible to the standard IDL-to-Smalltalk mapping. Any exceptions are documented. SST's IIOP support does not include: an IDL repository or an IDL parser.

SST supports the following versions of major components:

You will find this section easier to understand if you are familiar with CORBA terminology and programming conventions, particularly the IDL-to-Smalltalk mappings. This document is not an introduction to programming with CORBA.