[omniORB] Re: can't get started with the Echo sample

[Ramesh V. Shaastri]

I apologize for not mentioning the platform and environment details:

I installed OmniORB under Windows NT 4.0. I created the ORB log
directory as well as its associated environment variable.

I was using the dir.mak makefile (for cl compile+link) as well as a VC++
project. Both methods successfully build the necessary executables.

In response to my original posting I got the responses >shown below. 

>What JDK & javaidl version/vendor do you use ?
>Any sugestions ?

Sorry, but I am not using either in this situation. I do, however, use
the Sun JDK for writing Java applications. I wouldn't recommend MS VJ++
if you want to create J apps using RMI (not supported!).

>What is your platform?

Intel PII running Windows NT 4.0 (Workstation OS).

>Have you created the registry key for the naming service IOR?  I seem to
>remember having to create a key for the IOR.

Could someone tell me what should be the name+value for the key?


>   Your omniORB.cfg needs to be set up. When omniNames first starts
>it prints out an IOR, which goes in omniORB.cfg with "NAMESERVICE"
>in front of it. resolve_initial_references() will look in that file
>to find the IOR for the name service.

I have no idea of where this file needs to be set up. I couldn't find a
default file with this name in any of the subdirectories.

----------------------------Original posting---------------------------

I was able to compile and build eg3_impl.exe and eg3_clt.exe. But I keep
getting an exception when the following statement executes in eg3_impl:

initServ = orb->resolve_initial_references("NameService");

I run the omniNames.exe program before trying to execute eg3_impl. I
assume this starts the naming service (IOR)? Can someone tell me what is
going on or what I might be doing wrong?

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