JavaIDL and omniORB2

[Henrik Voss]

Hi,

I have a (beginners) problem when I use JavaIDL (jdk1.2beta2) with omniORB2
(v2.4.0) on WinNT. I am running example 2 from the users manual, passing the
object reference as a string via a file from the server to the client. 

The problem arises in the client when the client is written in Java. I have
included a few lines of the client below:

  System.out.print("object to string ... ");
  org.omg.CORBA.Object that = orb.string_to_object(objectString);
  System.out.println("done");

  System.out.print("narrow object ... ");
  // Here is the problem!
  Echo obj = EchoHelper.narrow(that);
  System.out.println("done");

The problem seem to appear when the generic object reference is narrowed to an
Echo proxy object. If the server is running the method invocation is never
returning. If the server is not running narrow throws the exception "unable to
contact the object. 

Any help?

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