[omniORB] problems with sequence based value types

[William Bauder]

Ya, my omniidl does't seem to like CORBA::WStringValue, so I can't
actually compile it (I think it's a 4.1 thing).

I hadn't considered the jboss factor (I guess rmic does make more sense
in that case).  

It still sounds like the compiler is missing a reference or having a
collision with something.  What are the problem lines in the generated
code?  Is there something that defines org::omg::boxedRMI::CORBA::Ulong
(since it's usually just CORBA::Ulong)?

The cleaner way is just to return a sequence of string, but nothing's
ever that simple...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Stelzer [mailto:jstelzer at healthmarketscience.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:40 PM
To: William Bauder
Cc: 'Jason Stelzer'; omniorb-list at omniorb-support.com
Subject: Re: [omniORB] problems with sequence based value types



On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:33 PM, William Bauder wrote:

> I can't check it - I'm using 4.0 - but maybe it's not finding the the
> CORBA:: types?  Do you have an older omniorb (or different orb) in the

> INCLUDE?
>

No, only one version of omniorb is installed.

I'm using "omniidl -I. -I/usr/share/idl/omniORB -bcxx c path/to/idl"  
to generate the stub code. The other idl files are fine, my problems  
center round this specific valuetype.


> Personally, I would get away from java/rmi to IDL tools.  It's a lot 
> less grief to write the IDL and generate the C++ and Java code from 
> that.

That approach is fundamentally incompatible with how jboss has  
implemented its corba support. They're using reflection and  
annotations and deploying things at runtime. Switching away from  
jboss is a battle I can't win. If I can't resolve this I can always  
just return a comma delimited string and split it apart on the client  
side, but that is a workaround I dont think I should need. That all  
said, the idl file in question is very simple. How would you write it  
differently? I'm just curious. There may be a cleaner way to specify  
"this returns a list of strings".

--
J.