Distributed processing with omniorb2

[Eoin Carroll]

Him

> About IORs, since OMG doesn't specify the string form of an IOR, why not
> using a real Ascii one, such as an URL ?
> Yes, it shouldn't be a directly managed string (by humans), however is has
> to be moved around; moreover, it keeps a Tcp/IP address which sometimes is
> useful to read, at least for checking out installations.
> 
> 
> 		Renzo Tomaselli      

The OMG does specify a string form for IORs, which is used by omniORB in the 
registry and configuration file. This specification is necessary, as otherwise
one couldn't cut and paste stringified IORs between different vendor's ORBs. 
See section 10.6.5 of the CORBA 2.0 spec. for details.
If you want to see the contents of a stringified IOR, use the utility catior, 
included with the omniORB distribution.


Regards,

Eoin Carroll

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Eoin Carroll                                     ewc@orl.co.uk
Research Engineer
Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab
Cambridge, UK