POA Activation After registering the servant and exporting our object, we may activate the POA, via the POA manager. // get the POA manager from the root POA. PortableServer::POAManager_var poa_manager; try { poa_manager = root_poa->the_POAManager(); } catch (CORBA::SystemException exception) { cerr << "PortableServer::POA::the_POAManager"; return -1; } // set the state of the poa_manager to active i.e ready // to process requests. try { poa_manager->activate(); } catch (CORBA::SystemException exception) { cerr << "PortableServer::POAManager::activate"; return -1; }