The section on "Advanced Topics" covers the following:

• Peer versus client/server processes" demonstrates how peer-to-peer object interactions are supported in DSOM.

• Dynamic Invocation Interface" details DSOM support for the CORBA dynamic invocation interface to dynamically build and invoke methods on remote objects.

• Creating user-supplied proxy classes" describes how to override proxy generation by the DSOM run time and, instead, install a proxy object supplied by the user.

• Customizing the default base proxy class"discusses how the SOMDClientProxy class can be subclassed to define a customized base class that DSOM will use during dynamic proxy-class generation.

• Sockets class" describes how DSOM uses Sockets subclasses.