MICO: Re: [omniORB] Can I use a naming service with different orbs?

[Bill Janssen]

The Interoperable Naming Service spec was revised last November to
support URLs mechanisms.  For example, suppose your CosNaming
nameservice is running on host "foo", port 9999, and that the object key
of the root NamingContext is "NameService".  You could then instruct
your client to use it by specifying

	client -ORBInitRef NameService=iioploc://foo:9999/NameService

The client code then uses

	 resolve_initial_references("NameService")

to get the NameService object, and the "resolve" method on that to
lookup registered objects by name.

This revision also established defaults that a CosNaming server is
supposed to use: an object key of "NameService" for the root
NamingContext, and a port of 9999.

The ILU CosNaming implementation supports this, as should all CORBA 2.3
implementations.

Bill