[omniORB] Why do oneway requests hang on disconnected network?

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 27 November, Sean Parker wrote:

> Any chance on implementing oneways as UDP messages? (This would be
> ideal for setting up a work around in environments "hostile" to "slow"
> protocols, although "unreliable").  Certainly, if I were to use
> oneway's, it'd only be with the intent of optimizing some part of our
> system for speed - something UDP would be a good fit for...  Of course
> that'd require work to the internals of OmniORB to also listen on
> another port for possible incoming UDP messages....

It's not something mentioned in the CORBA specs, but there's no reason
it couldn't be added as an omniORB extension. It would probably be quite
a lot of work, since omniORB's transport system assumes a connection
oriented protocol.

If you want to work on it, let me know and I'll help you understand the
relevant bits of omniORB's internals.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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