Name: aj29109 Date: 04/25/2002


This feature is to provide pluggability interfaces in the ORB to enable
customization. Some specific requirements are:

- Allow for interface based implementation of Connection Management portion
   of the ORB. This will allow us to plug in our own connection management
   framework
- SSL implementation in ORB should also be abstracted at the Connection level,
   instead of Socket level.
- The ORB should allow for pluggability of different Threading schemes based on
   the usage. For example: the reader thread could also be the worker thread in
   certain situations and allow for improved performance.
- The ORB should provide a framework for load balancing of Naming Requests
   requests to other VMs in a multi-VM scenario. The LB could be based on
   a pluggable policy (like round-robin or based on application partitioning by
   the user). This will be extremely useful for application server for
   scalability in the multi-vm mode (specially for homogenous deployements).


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