[omniORB] Orbix 3.0 v.s omniORB2.8

[Carlson, Andy]

All,

I dont know if Iona have a patch for this. If not, waiting for one
would be 'doing the right thing' but could take a while!

Would it not be possible to put a workaround for this into
omniORB (presumably with #ifdefs around it), as was done
for the dodgy null references from early versions of Visibroker?

Andy
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sai-Lai Lo [SMTP:S.Lo@uk.research.att.com]
> Sent:	Friday, October 08, 1999 11:00 AM
> To:	Chia-Yen Shih
> Cc:	omniorb-list@uk.research.att.com
> Subject:	Re: [omniORB] Orbix 3.0 v.s omniORB2.8
> 
> >>>>> Chia-Yen Shih writes:
> 
> > Has anyone been successful in getting Orbix3.0 to work with omniORB2.8?
> 
> > Any information will be appreciated.
> 
> According to the report by the CORBA comparison project
> (http://www.kav.cas.cz/~buble/corba/comp/), Orbix 3.0 client fails to
> interoperate with omniORB. An exception CORBA::OBJECT_NOT_EXIST is raised.
> The author has this explanation:
> 
> "The ORBIX client does not use a correct object key when contacting the
> omniORB server. In the IIOP request, a key that is one byte longer than
> what was in the object reference is specified, yielding the
> OBJECT_NOT_EXIST exception."
> 
> I don't know if Iona has a patch to fix this problem.
> 
> You may want to verify this independently. Please write a eg2_clt for
> Orbix
> and run it against a eg2_impl omniORB server with -ORBtraceLevel 30. The
> GIOP message dump from the omniORB server tells you something about what
> Orbix is sending.
> 
> Sai-Lai
> 
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