[omniORB] IOR Distributor?

[Nick Murtagh]

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 20:42, Jennie Holmes wrote:
> We are basically delivering a system on two boxes,
> one Linux and one Solaris.  I have a server on the
> Linux box using omniORB, and a client on the Solaris
> box using TAO.  I don't want to put the IOR into a
> file because I don't want anything manual to be part
> of the installation, and that's what we would have
> to do - use a persistent IOR, run the server, get
> the IOR into a file, ftp the file to the client side.
> Then when the system is started "for real", the IOR
> is there in a file ready to be used.
>
> If there is another option, please let me know!  If
> the client and server were on the same box, putting
> the IOR into a file might work.  But with them on
> different boxes, it just seems like a bad idea.

What about getting the Linux server to run on a specific port with a specific 
object id, and then telling the Solaris client to connect using a corbaloc, 
specifying the hostname and port and object id?