[omniORB] OrbixWeb server answers OBJECT_NOT_EXIST while invoking

[Sai-Lai Lo]

>>>>> Robert Schumann writes:

> I have no control over the OrbixWeb server, my only job is to make a client,
> several hundred miles away from the server, situated on another consulting
> firm. Do you mean that I should use something like TestSrv->connect() before
> I invoke any method?

> This is all I do:

> 	CORBA::Object_var obj = orb->string_to_object(stringified_IOR);
> 	// ***** The IDL is modules in modules... ******
> 	country::company::project::hack::Test_ptr TestSrv =
> country::company::project::hack::Test::_narrow(obj);
> 	//******* This is where I get the exception OBJECT_NOT_EXIST *******
> 	dest=TestSrv->getResponse(src);

Robert,

Your code looks correct. This is such a straight forward invocation that
one would expect it would work first time.

My guess is that OrbixWeb is not able to response correctly to the GIOP
message, LocateRequest. Before omniORB2 invoke on an object the first time,
it always issue a LocateRequest. The ORB is expected to response with
object is here or object not exists.

To check if this is the case, unfortunately it is necessary to edit the
library source to remove a statement:

<top>/src/lib/omniORB2/orbcore/proxyCall.cc:

Comment out any call to assertObjectExistent().

I appreciate your effort to track down the problem. I'm quietly
confident that it is a problem with OrbixWeb. If you can verify this is the
case, please contact Iona to tell them to sort out the problem. It is
becoming rather annoying to cope with interoperability bugs in Orbix*.

Sai-Lai 

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