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The Interface Repository is a service that provides persistent objects that represent the IDL information in a form available
at run-time. The Interface Repository information may be used by the ORB to perform requests. Moreover, using the information
in the Interface Repository, it is possible for a program to encounter an object whose interface was not known when the program
was compiled, yet, be able to determine what operations are valid on the object and make an invocation on it.
In addition to its role in the functioning of the ORB, the Interface Repository is a common place to store additional information
associated with interfaces to ORB objects. For example, debugging information, libraries of stubs or skeletons, routines that
can format or browse particular kinds of objects might be associated with the Interface Repository.