[omniORB] RE: Orbix to OmniORB integration problem

[Lars von Wedel]

Concerning the interoperability problem with Orbix 2.3, Iona has
released a package with a bunch of patches. After applying the
patch, Orbix works well with OmniORB as well as with VisiBroker.

The patch can be downloaded from the Iona support pages.


Regards,
Lars

David Riddoch writes:
 > 
 > Yan,
 > 
 > 
 > I think the problem may be with the Orbix object_to_string and
 > string_to_object methods.  Orbix has a proprietary format for stringified
 > IORs, which contains the host name.  You'll need to persuade Orbix to give
 > you a standard stringified IOR.  I think the following may work:
 > 
 > stringified_ior = 
 >   objref->_object_to_string(CORBA::IT_INTEROPERABLE_OR_KIND);
 > 
 > and something similar for string_to_object.
 > 
 > I got this from:
 >   http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/archives/1997-08/0016.html
 > 
 > 
 > Hope this helps,
 > David
 > 
 > 
 > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Yan Presman wrote:
 > 
 > > David, thank you for prompt reply.
 > > 
 > > Here is additional information I've collected so far:
 > > 
 > > I found a way to call from OmniORB (2.7.0) client to Orbix server, here are 
 > > some issues I've noticed (I checked both Orbix 2.3c and Orbix 2.3c02): (I 
 > > use famous 'grid' example for all my tests)
 > > 
 > > 1.	object_to_string (Orbix, server side) produces IOR that does not have 
 > > valid Daemon port number (as claimed by documentation, nor does it have
 > > 	server port#) - generated IOR contains something very strange. I
 > > tried to 
 > > use Orbix.useTransientPort() to get to server's port - with the same result
 > > 
 > > 2.	Only when I generated IOR manually (by calling makeIOR()) while 
 > > providing daemon port# as a parameter I got an IOR that looked good and 
 > > that
 > > 	could be used to talk to Orbix server from OmniORB
 > > 
 > > Unfortunately I don't know yet how to call OmniORB servers from Orbix 
 > > clients. My attempt to use IOR produced by OmniORB resulted in Orbix 
 > > message:
 > > 
 > > Unexpected system exception
 > > 10086-- Communication failure
 > >   - unknown host : 
 > > ior\:01b120100d00000049444c3a677269643a312e3000c104100100000000000000280  
 > > 000000101
 > > 00000e0000003137322e32332e34342e31373900330f0c00000036e820de000002f00000  
 > > 0002
 > >   [Completion status : COMPLETED_NO]
 > > 
 > > 1.	I could not figure out yet how to obtain omniORB server port# (so I can 
 > > verify that IOR generated by OmniORB is valid). If you can help me with 
 > > 	this one I'd really appreciate
 > > 
 > > 2.	Is there a way to put server's host name (instead of IP address) in the 
 > > generated IOR  ? - I've noticed that Orbix uses names
 > 
 > 
 >