[omniORB] Possibility of having a CORBA client/server without a nameservice .

[Huw Rogers]

Another option which does not require a name
service, corbaloc support or pinning down
the host/port is to exchange the stringified
IOR via HTTP, using a fixed well known URL
for the server IOR.

	-Huw

Duncan Grisby wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 1 November, Vinaya Kavathekar wrote:
> 
> > 2) Tried using the following code to resolve initial reference from the Java
> > client, but it failed. (As expected, since they are different orbs.)
> >       String obj_string = "corbaloc::localhost:5555/" + objName;
> >       org.omg.CORBA.Object obj = orb.string_to_object(obj_string);
> >
> >       objMgr = CORHelloHelper.narrow(obj);
> 
> This should work with any ORB that supports the interoperable naming
> service. The built-in Java ORB doesn't support it, but plenty of the
> other free ORBs do.
> 
> > 3) Share an initial IOR between client and server.
> >       This is extremely difficult since we do not have a common
> > file-system. That means, there must be some initial bootstrapping through
> > sockets or such, totally defeating the purpose of using CORBA.
> 
> If you pin down the host, port and key of the server object, the IOR
> will always be the same, so you can manually exchange the IOR once,
> and it will always work.