[omniORB] Single Login to server program

[Bruce Visscher]

I think to really do this properly, you need CORBA security.  What is
the status of this in omniORB?

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Muro, Sam <research at businesstz.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I am trying to implement a corba program (client) to retrieve customer
> information from the server. Since the server allow to login once and
> perform your operations until the lifetime experies, i want the client to
> use already login connection to perform the retrieve function without
> login in to the server for every request.
>
> Suppose retrieve has three functions, logon(), perform() and logoff()
> Pseudo code;
> 1. User runs a client application
>        ./retrieve <corbaloc URI> customerID
> 2. if the client program has already login, donot login, go to 4
> 3. Client program login to the server program
> 4. client program invoke perform(customerID) to retrieve customer information
> 5. Client program submit customer information to the calling program, in
> this case, stdio
> 6. Unless specified, do not logoff
>
> Here is the code snippets;
>
> static void login(Base::Customer_ptr e) {
>
>  CORBA::String_var username = (const char*) "mimi";
>  CORBA::String_var password = (const char*) "ahh!!";
>  CORBA::String_var seckey= (const char*) "";
>  Base::BaseList  BaseLists;
>
>  BaseList.length(2);
>  BaseList[0].bName =  CORBA::string_dup("CATEGORY");
>  BaseList[0].bValue = CORBA::string_dup("VIP");
>
>  BaseList[1].bName =  CORBA::string_dup("CATEGORY");
>  BaseList[1].bValue = CORBA::string_dup("VIP");
>
> //I JUST WANT TO PERFORM THIS FUNCTION IFF IT HASNT BEEN INVOKED BEFORE,
> ELSE SKIP THIS METHOD
>  e->Login(username,password,seckey); //NEW seckey WILL BE RETURNED
>
>  Base::BaseResult result;
>  result=  e-> Perform(seckey, BaseList);
>
>  cerr  << "***********************************" <<endl
>        << "****         TASK RESULT      *****" <<endl
>        << "****     \t"<< taskresult << "  *****" <<endl
>        << "***********************************" <<endl;
>
>  //PERFORM THIS FUCTION ONLY IF NECESSARY, MAY CHECK argc[] for specified
> option
>  e-> logoff();
>
> }
>
> I also want to make this be multithreads.
> Any input is highly appreciated
>
> Sam
>
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