### 6.9 PolyORB’s specific APIs

PolyORB defines packages to help in the development of CORBA programs.

- PolyORB.CORBA_P.CORBALOC:

  This package defines a helper function to build a `corbaloc` stringified reference from a CORBA object reference.

- PolyORB.CORBA_P.Naming_Tools:

  This package defines helper functions to ease interaction with CORBA COS Naming.

- PolyORB.CORBA_P.Server_Tools:

  This package defines helper functions to ease set up of a simple CORBA Server.