POA Initialization (Cont.)

The resolve_initial_references method returns a CORBA::Object instance, which needs to be narrowed into a POA_var.

  // Get the Root POA object reference
  CORBA::Object_var obj =
      orb->resolve_initial_references ("RootPOA");

  // Narrow the object reference to a POA reference
  PortableServer::POA_var root_poa;
  try {
    root_poa = PortableServer::POA::_narrow (obj.in ());
  }
  catch (CORBA::SystemException exception) {
    cerr << "PortableServer::POA::_narrow";
    return -1;
  }