3.2.4.1.1 Activation

The activation mechanism consists of the following sequence of operations:

  1. First, the client MUST use the application-supplied remote server name to determine the RPC binding information to be used for the activation request. The client MUST also perform capability negotiation with the server (see section 1.7).

  2. Then the client MUST issue the activation request using the application-supplied CLSID and the RPC binding information obtained in the first step.

  3. Next, the client MUST update the OXID table.

  4. Finally, the client MUST unmarshal the object references returned from the activation request.