 have added several
Bridge classes that decouple the transport-specific details from the rest
of TAO's ORB Core. This allows us to isolate the details of how messages
are communicated at the transport layer in a few classes. This design resulted
in the restructuring of the ORB Core and how requests are handled. For
instance, there is now the concept of communication layers: Objects (e.g.,
references, method invocations, etc.), ORB Messaging, Transport, and Network.
The Object layer is just the usual stubs a