[omniORB] corbaloc/corbaname

[Donna Maskell]

I successfully ran the echo tests by cutting and pasting the IOR from
the server to the client. However, now I have been trying to get working
an application which is a client to multiple servers on an ORB. The IOR
is unwieldy and it seems like the INS offers a better way.

The corbaname thing seems the better choice (than corbaloc), since it
doesn't require me to keep track of where the object is, but I still
have to specify the location of the Name Service, do I not? Seems to me
that the same processing I do to get the name service could be done by
the string_to_object method. That does assume it can tell whether a Name
Service is specified or not, but if the URI starts with "corbaname", it
knows to look for one. I suppose there might be backward-compatibility
problems if string_to_object started looking up a name service. But
suppose you passed it a string of the form:

corbaname::#some_context#some_name

Perhaps the "::" followed by a "#" could be used to trigger it to look
up the NameService itself. Or is there some reason why it cannot do
that?

I also wonder why the examples are so similar to web addresses, e.g.
URLs. I realize URLs are valid URIs, but I have a very simple
application here. I would like to get my objects by saying the
equivalent of:

string_to_object("corbaname::#MyObject");  // syntax probably
incorrect, but you get the point.

Could it not be set up to default to looking up the naming service,
then defaulting to the root context if there is only one '#'? As it is,
I can see myself writing a method to encapsulate this whole thing so
that I invoke:

CORBA::Object_var = get_object("MyObject");

and everything else is handled internally to get_object. Or is this not
a feasible approach for some reason? I have been reading and studying
the 3.0 User's Guide, but I won't say I have it completely assimilated
as yet.

Also, for some reason, I cannot find the list, only the archives, so
the only way I can interact is by sending a message to the list, rather
than replying to someone's specific posting. Can anyone tell me where
the group is? Thanks.

Donna