[omniORB] Student wondering

[Richard Hardgrave]

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> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 13:31:57 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Eric Desjardins <desjardins_e@yahoo.ca>
> Subject: [omniORB] Student wondering
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> Hello,
> 
> I'm a student in computer eng and as student do, I'm doing a student
> project.  I'm planning using CORBA in my application since it's a
> distributed one and it would (I think) make things cleaner.
> 
> I read a lot on CORBA lately and I was wondering reading omni
> documentation: since I have (on NT) to put the nameservice IOR in my
> registry, how could build an application that could start and find
> where a nameservice is available. If not, the nameservice could start
> automatically for a particular LAN.
> 
> Am I dreaming or something like this is possible.  I teacher of mine
> told me that I could find objects that were on the same network than me
> nearly automatically (with some command line tool availaible with Orbix
> or Visibroker or ...).  This seems a little weird...

Orbix (Iona) implements an 'orbixd' (daemon - unix type server) to do server
activation and run Implementation Repository (non-standard CORBA) management
requests.  The requests are run at the command line (putit, lsit, etc.).

> 
> Could somebody help me on this?
> 
> Thanks
> Eric
> 
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