[omniORB] newbie quick queries

[Eric Damphousse]

Hi all,

First thing first, thank you all for your help.. it definitely helps and 
answers quite a few questions that I may have. I might have been unclear 
on my little test I previously describe and will try again with 
something more specific and hopefully clearer.

Let say I wrote a simple servant object that can set the clock of the 
machine it currently runs on. I have many machines, running different 
OSs, all of them having that servant object up and running.

I have 1 client sitting on a box somewhere where its purpose is to set 
the clock of any machines that have the servant object available. For 
example, a user would enter a clock value in the client, press enter 
then all clocks on all machine would be set to that value, or close to it.

The important part for me is to write a single object that can be 
distributed to many machines, then accessed/controlled by one client.

I have this now working, but needed to cheat. What I have done to make 
this work is to modify the servant object for each machine it runs on as 
such:

Object_impl myobj;
OWWObject_var myObjectVar = myobj._this();

try
{
 // bind object to name service
 CosNaming::Name_var name = 
rootContextExt_var->to_name("Hillsboro.Newton/TestObject");
 bindObjectPath(rootContextExt_var.in(), name.in(), myObjectVar.in());
}

catch stuff not written here....

All code within the servant object is the same except the 
"Hillsboro.Newton/TestObject" naming service stuff. The way this is 
currently setup is mytown.mymachine/servant_object. For each machine it 
runs on, I modify the mymachine to be the machine in question.

The client loops through the different mytown.mymachine/servant_object 
and it works just fine.

My question is that the right way of doing such a thing. I don't see the 
need to modify the servant object's naming stuff. I could potentially 
read this from a file, but I have a feeling there is a better way of 
doing this.

Any clues?

Eric