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

[Carlson, Andy]

Bill,

Thanks for the correction. I should know better than to say
something cant be done!

It's always good to know that a better world is in sight but those 
of us lucky application level souls concerned with interoperability 
usually have to deal with the OLDEST version of the specification 
which is supported (in reality, not just marketing) by the various 
components we are trying to get to work together, so I fear we will 
be stuck with using IOR's to reach the Name Service for a while yet.

Now if only they all played nicely together once we have connected 
to them...

Andy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Janssen [SMTP:janssen@parc.xerox.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 01, 1999 2:22 AM
> To:	Mike Bendickson; Carlson, Andy
> Cc:	omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com;
> mico-devel@vsb.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
> Subject:	Re: [omniORB] Can I use a naming service with different
> orbs?
> 
> 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