[omniORB] corbaloc

[Peter Rapier]

Yes this would be very useful Bootstrapping the main server object is the
issue and corbaloc seems to address this very well.  Its object key is 8
chars long.

Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: David Riddoch [mailto:djr@uk.research.att.com]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:15 AM
To: Peter Rapier
Cc: 'omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com'
Subject: RE: [omniORB] corbaloc 


On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Peter Rapier wrote:

> Its the server side I need to work with.  I have omniOrb2.6 on the server
> but clients using it are being created with the newer products that
include
> corbaloc.


Duncan Grisby wrote:

> There are two aspects to support for corbaloc. On the client side,
> string_to_object need to understand the corbaloc and corbaname URI
> formats. That bit should be relatively easy to back-port to omniORB
> 2.6. On the server side, you need to be able to create object keys
> with simple string names, like "NameService". That bit would be very
> hard to support in omniORB 2.x.

Just to expand, the difficulty largely stems from the fact the omniORB 2.x
uses fixed length (12-byte I think) keys.  I think I can see a way to hack
a solution if you could live with keys that are <=12 bytes in length ...
(by padding out keys that are shorter).

Would this be useful?


Cheers,
David