[omniORB] interoperable name service support

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 10 January, "David Woodbury" wrote:

> My organization is just starting to look at the potential uses for
> IIOP, one of which would be to tie multiple ORB implementations.
> Given no interoperable naming service, what are folks doing to get
> around this to obtain their object references?

The existing Naming service provides almost everything you need in an
ORB independent way. The Interoperable Naming Service adds two things:
a standard way of representing names as strings (the old Naming
service uses a sequence of structures), and URL-style access to names.

String formatted names are merely a programming convenience. URL-style
names are mostly a convenience, but also solve the one problem with
the old Naming service -- that of acquiring a reference to a different
ORB's Naming service. With the old Naming service you have to use
ORB-specific mechanisms to tell each ORB where to find the Naming
service. Once you have done that, everything interoperates seamlessly.
The Naming service IOR is normally stored in a configuration file
which is very rarely changed, so it's not a major problem.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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