Stephen and Renzo, It is a bug that omniORB 2.8 still strip the typecode alias from a DynAny. I'll look into that when I got back to England. Sai-Lai -- Sai-Lai Lo S.Lo@uk.research.att.com AT&T Laboratories Cambridge WWW: http://www.uk.research.att.com 24a Trumpington Street Tel: +44 1223 343000 Cambridge CB2 1QA Fax: +44 1223 313542 ENGLAND