[omniORB] Can I use a naming service with different orbs?

[Bill Janssen]

Andy,

CosNaming was fixed in November 98 to address the problems you were
talking about.

> 3. CORBA does not specify the implementation of the above
> call, so vendors are free to lock you in by making it use a proprietary
> binding mechanism to reach only their Name Service. 

CORBA now specifies a standard mechanism for doing so, though
proprietary mechanisms may be supported in addition.

> If you DID want to avoid having an IOR in the configuration, you would
> need the object key for the root context object as well as the host and 
port where the server is running (assuming that we are using IIOP)

There is now a standard object key (I believe it's the Latin-1 string
"NameService") for the root context, and a standard port (9999).  A
vanilla CosNaming server should start up with these parameters.

Bill