[omniORB] Naming across ORBS

[David Hyde]

Hello,

I am trying to access an Expersoft CORBAplus written server from an OmniOrb
client (on the same machine).  I've done it by passing the stringified
reference to the object that I want to connect to into the client on the
command line, but I can't seem to do it through the naming service.  Here's
what I'm doing...

>From my server:

// Initialise the ORB
orb = CORBA::ORB_init(Myargc, Myargv);

if (!CORBA::is_nil(orb))

// Initialise the BOA
CORBA::BOA_ptr aboa = orb->BOA_init(Myargc, Myargv);
XpsBOA * pboa = XpsBOA::_narrow(aboa);

if (!CORBA::is_nil(pboa))
{
	 // resolve a reference to the NamingService
	CORBA::Object_ptr obj =
orb->resolve_initial_references("NameService");
	if (!CORBA::is_nil(obj))
	{
		// narrow to a Naming Context
		CosNaming::NamingContext_ptr pNC =
CosNaming::NamingContext::_narrow(obj);

		if (!CORBA::is_nil(pNC))
		{
			CORBA::String_var p;

			// Get the stringified Naming Service object and
output it
			p = orb->object_to_string(pNC);
			cout << endl << "Stringified Naming Service object
is:" << endl << (char*)p << endl << endl;


The client looks like this:

CORBA::ORB_ptr orb = CORBA::ORB_init(argc,argv,"omniORB2");
CORBA::BOA_ptr boa = orb->BOA_init(argc,argv,"omniORB2_BOA");

CORBA::Object_ptr obj = orb->resolve_initial_references("NameService");

if (!CORBA::is_nil(obj))
{
	...

I place the string output by the server (including the "IOR:") into the
registry, but when I run the client I get an immediate exception and:

	Configuration error: Invalid object reference supplied for
NAMESERVICE.


I've even tried:

CORBA::Object_var ncObj = orb->string_to_object(argv[1]);
CosNaming::NamingContext_var pNC = CosNaming::NamingContext::_narrow(ncObj);

whilst placing OmniORB's IOR into the registry.  _narrow then returns NULL.



As far as I can see what I want to do shouldn't be too difficult, so can
anyone point me in the right direction please.


Thanks very much

David Hyde