The examples in this section and in the previous section have (for convenience)
made use of localhost to run all the components associated with a
CORBA application on the same machine. However, this need not have been
the case. The ORB, nameserver and object server program could have been
started on one host, whilst the client (or clients) could have been started on a
different host (or hosts). Each client would then have needed to use the command
line option -ORBInitialHost to specify the host machine for the
ORB (and, if appropriate, the command line option -ORBInitialPort to
specify the port).