Getting An Object Reference After we have the object's IOR, we will use the ORB to get an object reference. // translate the IOR to a reference to a CORBA object. // this is a blocking method that involves accessing // the server process. CORBA::Object_var object; try { object = orb->string_to_object (ior); } catch (CORBA::SystemException exception) { cerr << "CORBA::ORB::string_to_object"; return -1; } // Narrow the object reference to a HelloWorld CORBA object. HelloWorld_var hello_world; try { hello_world = HelloWorld::_narrow (object.in()); } catch (CORBA::SystemException exception) { cerr << "HelloWorld::_narrow"; return -1; }