The Smart Pointer package includes handle-body, singleton, smart pointer, and helper classes.
In the smart pointer category are the generic template classes for pointer-like object creation. Using these classes, you can create objects that act like pointers but provide some special behavior, such as reference-counting.
All classes in the smart pointer category derive from the abstract template class RWTPointer, as shown in Figure 43. RWTPointer is an opaque pointer, a pointer wrapper without dereferencing operations. Dereferencing operations are implemented in the derived concrete types, so they can have specialized behavior. RWTPointer provides a minimal common set of operations, such as the isValid() function.
Handle-body implementations built with the Smart Pointer package are based on the RWHandleBase and RWBodyBase classes (see Figure 44). These classes implement the basic functionality required for reference-counting. RWHandleBase provides constructors, destructor, assignment operator, equality and inequality operators, and the isValid() member, while RWBodyBase maintains the multithread-safe reference count.
The helper category contains accessory classes used by the smart pointer and handle-body classes (shown in Figure 45). For example, the implementation of reference counting falls in this category.
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