[omniORB] Initializing the ORB -- Finding a naming service

[Duncan Grisby]

On Thursday 24 January, "Olaf Meding" wrote:

> Is the below way to initialize an ORB CORBA compliant?  Note, the name of my
> application is client.exe.
> 
>   client -ORBInitRef NameService=corbaloc:iiop:localhost:53562/NameService

Yes, that is standard CORBA. (You actually asked the wrong question --
"client -ORBfoobarbaz NameService=find_it_yourself" is CORBA
_compliant_, it's just not standard.)

-ORBInitRef and corbaloc are part of the Interoperable Naming Service,
which was added in CORBA 2.4.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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