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This chapter introduces the operations that are implemented by the ORB core, and describes some basic ones, while providing
reference to the description of the remaining operations that are described elsewhere. The ORB interface is the interface
to those ORB functions that do not depend on which object adapter is used. These
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operations are the same for all ORBs and all object implementations, and can be performed either by clients of the objects
or implementations. The Object interface contains operations that are implemented by the ORB, and are accessed as implicit
operations of the Object Reference. The ValueBase interface contains operations that are implemented by the ORB, and are accessed
as implicit operations of the ValueBase Reference.
Because the operations in this section are implemented by the ORB itself, they are not in fact operations on objects, although
they are described that way for the Object or ValueBase interface operations and the language binding will, for consistency,
make them appear that way.