[omniORB] omniORB-to-omniORB over internet

[Glenn A. Hochberg]

I haven't used it, but I know that Inprise has a product called the
Gatekeeper that supports HTTP tunneling (i.e. tunneling IIOP over HTTP).
This likely only works with the VisiBroker ORB (not free), but you may
want to take a look: http://www.borland.com/visibroker/feaben/

There is also a similar product from IONA called Wonderwall:
http://www.iona.com/support/kb/Wonderwall/category/130.html
but again, it only works with their ORB (Orbix).

    -Glenn Hochberg

Ben Miller wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone implemented an omniORB server which has requests made upon
> it by a JavaIDL applet/application on a client?  I am wanting to do
> this but the main problem is that unless the JavaIDL ORB can send its
> requests to the omniORB ORB using HTTP, the requests will not get
> through client-end firewalls.  We are trying to create software that
> works in this way and is installed at customer sites with the least
> amount of maintenance possible.  Our client and server machines are
> Windows x86 (for now), but we hope to port the server -side code to
> Unix in the future.
>
> I realise that this is a large, multi-facetted issue, but any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Ben Miller
>
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