[xmlblaster] mechanisms for client connection

["Viner, David" <dviner at yahoo-inc.com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to understand some of the internals of XMLBlaster.  When a client
connects to the xb server, it appears it can connect via at least 2
different protocols types "CORBA" and "SOCKET".
http://www.xmlblaster.org/xmlBlaster/doc/client-api/org/xmlBlaster/client/Xm
lBlasterAccess.html#connect(org.xmlBlaster.client.qos.ConnectQos,%20org.xmlB
laster.client.I_Callback)

are there other connection types?
I don't have a lot of familiarity with corba, so, please forgive me if this
is a silly question... is the corba connection via a socket? if so, what is
the socket type (stream socket vs. datagram socket)?  and what is the port
through which xb clients will communicate with the xb server?

thanks
dave