Hi,

I have a CORBA application that is based on Orbix2000 from IONA. The
Server is in C++ and the Client in Java. For different reasons, we are
intending to replace Orbix2000 by some free ORB implementation. For
the server-side, we decided for TAO, which seems to be quite good.
However, in a first step we are intending to replace the Orbix2000 ORB
only on the client side, and if this works out, we will
carry on and use TAO on Server-side. But we were very surprised to see
that simply replacing the ORB in the java(client) side by one of many
different free Java ORBs
(SUN jdk built-in ORB, JacORB, Orbacus, OpenORB, ZEN) just does not
work, except for Orbacus which happens to also be an IONA product(with
a free non-commercial license). The Java architecture makes it
possible to replace the ORB just with some JVM arguments without even
changing the source code, so there is really hardly any potential
source of mistake. And the fact that it works only with another IONA
ORB makes us think that Orbix2000 has some IONA-specific
functionality.
Now my questions:
-Is there something like a public ORB interoperability matrix for
reference?
-Does anybody have experience with some combination of one of the
named ORBs with Orbix?

Thanx