8.2 Introduction

The mapping for Slice data types to C++ is identical on the client side and server side. This means that everything in Chapter 6 also applies to the server side. However, for the server side, there are a few additional things you need to know, specifically:

• how to initialize and finalize the server-side run time

• how to implement servants

• how to pass parameters and throw exceptions

• how to create servants and register them with the Ice run time.

We discuss these topics in the remainder of this chapter.