Multiple Ice::CommunicatorPtrs in an application?

I have an application that will interface to multiple other applications via Ice.

This application implements multiple clients and a server.

Is it wise to use multilpe Ice::CommunicatorPtrs ( generated from Ice::Initialize ) throughout the application for the various interfaces, or is it smarter to just have one instance of this class and use it throughout my application to generate adapters and interfaces?

Thanks,
Caleb

In virtually all cases, a single Communicator is all you need. There are very few exceptions, such as if you want to load a completely independent Ice application as a DLL at runtime, with separate configuration settings.