
<b>Multiple Profile</b> - Support for more than one profile per object.
This is important since there may be several different ways to access an
object. Each profile for an object may encode information pertaining to
QoS, network and transport protocols, addresses or routes.</li>

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<b>Example Transport protocols</b> - Aside from IIOP, the following transport
protocols are distributed with TAO:</li>

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UIOP: GIOP over local IPC (UNIX domain sockets)</li>

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SHMIOP: GIOP over shared memory</li