Chapter 11 Xml Transport And Event Notifications; Cisco Crs-1 Series Xml Transport And Corba Idl - Cisco CRS-1 - Carrier Routing System Router Api Manual

XML Transport and Event Notifications
This chapter discusses the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) as the extensible markup
language (XML) transport mechanism for the Cisco CRS-1 Series Carrier Routing System (Cisco CRS-1
Series), and its Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP), the protocol used for accessing objects across the Internet.
CORBA-based event notifications are also discussed in this chapter.
CORBA/IIOP is the transport mechanism provided with the initial release of the Cisco CRS-1 Series
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XML API. Additional transport mechanisms including Telnet and Secure Shell (SSH) will be provided
in future releases of the Cisco CRS-1 Series XML API.
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Cisco CRS-1 Series XML Transport and CORBA IDL

CORBA/IIOP is the Cisco CRS-1 Series XML transport mechanism. External client applications use
CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) to exchange XML encoded request and response streams
with the CORBA XML agent running on the router.
Communication between the client application and the server (that is, via the CORBA XML agent) is
through IIOP. The client application must first bind to the CORBA XML agent object by obtaining the
appropriate Interoperable object reference (IOR) from the CORBA Naming Service. The client then
obtains a login authentication using the "login()" method. After the client has obtained a login
authentication, the client can use the "invoke()" method to send XML requests to the CORBA XML
agent.
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"IDL Interface"
"Authentication"
"CORBA NameServer"
"CORBA Notification Structure"
"Starting the CORBA XML Agent"
"CORBA XML Limitations"
"XML Agent Errors"
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