[PolyORB-users] Interoperability of PolyOrb with other CORBA implementations

[Jérôme Hugues]

Gustavo, please never ever send a zip file of 4MB to this public  
mailing list, your mails got lost in spam folder that I
do not review regularly ..

Le 6 juin 08 à 10:43, Gustavo Ambrosio a écrit :

> I am working with PolyORB version gpl-2007 (https://libre.adacore.com/polyorb/ 
> ) and I would like to ask you a question related to interoperability  
> between PolyORB and other ORBs. In particular I would be interested  
> in achieving interoperability with TAO and Sun JDK ORB. I am trying  
> to get interoperability by means of the so-called "Interoperable  
> Naming Service". In the following links there are tutorials that  
> explain how to implement the Interoperable Naming Service with TAO  
> and Sun JDK ORB:

Interoperability is not defined by the fact you can parse a certain  
type of references, but rather through interactions of requests.  
PolyORB should work with TAO using IOR ..

>
> Sun JDK ORB: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/idl/INStutorial.html
> TAO: http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/DOC_ROOT/TAO/docs/INS.html
>
> I am wondering if it would be possible do do something similar with  
> ADA and the PolyORB. I attached the source code that I am using in  
> order to get an example that is based on the Interoperable Naming  
> Service. In the example the server registers an object with an ID  
> ("Hello") by means of the function  
> CORBA.ORB.Register_Initial_Reference. The client bootstrapps the  
> object with the function  
> CORBA.ORB.Resolve_Initial_References("HelloWorld"). I would be  
> interested in executing the client with the following command line:
>
> ./client -ORBInitRef HelloWorld=corbaloc:iiop:1.2 at host:port/Hello
>
> The example compiles well but it doesn´t execute correctly cause the  
> client doesn´t manage to narrow the reference of the remote object.  
> Do you have any thoughts about how to program the Interoperable  
> Naming Service?
>

First, you'll note that

1/ TAO uses a special API for that
2/ Sun JDK is a very bad example of CORBA compliancy, prefer JacORB

INS works this way

./server  --polyorb-iiop-polyorb-protocols-iiop-default_port=1234
(note in your README file you incorrectly spelt the name of the  
property)

./client  -ORBInitRef HelloWorld=corbaloc:iiop: 
1.2 at 137.194.192.102:1234//000000011Tc7f8f39010dabd4e
(note the corbaloc is the one provided by PolyORB)

Having "Hello" instead of the hexa digits is technically feasible, but  
at the cost of a vendor specific
API. It is not planned for now.

>  P.S. I would also like to know if there is some kind of  
> documentation for the API of PolyORB. Somethink like the typical  
> Doxygen generated documentation or similar.

You can navigate source code through GPS


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