[omniORB] resolve_initial_references() blocks

[Diego Sevilla Ruiz]

Hi all:

	While playing with Fresco and omniORB3/4, we thought that we 
could use -ORBInitRef to add references to resolve_initial_references(). 
In essence, what we are trying to do is something like this:

client -ORBInitRef FrescoServer=<ior or corbaloc here>

and, within the client, we have a code something like this:

      // First try to resolve server reference from the initial
      // references  
      Server_var s = Server::_nil();
      try { s = resolve_init<Server>(orb,"FrescoServer");}
      catch (...) {}
      
      // Then try accessing the name service
      if (CORBA::is_nil(s))

(the resolve_init function is a template function that just calls the
resolve_initial_references and do the correct narrow).

	So the code is clear: if you can't find the "FrescoServer"
reference in resolve_initial_references() (InvalidName is thrown), then
"s" reference is still null and the client program tries to obtain it by
other means (in this case, the name service).
	
	If we supply the -ORBInitRef parameter, the client works fine,
but if we don't specify the parameter, the client hangs in
resolve_initial_references(). So I have two questions:

	Is it "safe" to use -ORBInitRef this way? And, is it supposed
that resolve_initial_references() returns automatically an InvalidName
exception if the name is not found?

	Best regards and thanks in advance.
	diego.

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