14.4 Interface-specific Bridges and Generic Bridges

   Request-level bridges may be:

• Interface-specific: they support predetermined IDL interfaces only, and are built using IDL-compiler generated stub and skeleton interfaces.

• Generic: capable of bridging requests to server objects of arbitrary IDL interfaces, using the interface repository and other dynamic invocation support (DII and DSI).

   Interface-specific bridges may be more efficient in some cases (a generic bridge could conceivably create the same stubs and skeletons using the interface repository), but the requirement for prior compilation means that this approach offers less flexibility than using generic bridges.