Can I use Ice's smart pointer with my own type?

[timeguest]

Ice has a cool smart pointer implementation, with which we needn't care about memory allocation and deallocation any more. My problem is, can I use Ice's smart pointer with my own class which doesn't necessarily inherit from Ice::Object?

[benoit]

Yes, you can use IceUtil::Shared for your own types, for example:

   class Base : public virtual IceUtil::Shared
   {
   };
   typedef IceUtil::Handle<Base> BasePtr;

Benoit.