I have hard time running ORDB on my Mandrake 10. I start it like this :
orbd -ORBInitialPort 1050 -ORBInitialHost localhost -J-showversion
Here is the result :
java version "1.4.2_05"

Our company is working on a distributed Java project based on J2SE.
Can anyone point out or give me link to somewhere that have a thorough
comparison between these 2 techs, in term of: ease of implementation,
performance, security etc.

I'm using Sun's orb implementation in a multi-homed (many interfaces,
many ip addresses) host. Is there a way to force object references to
use a given interface (ie. ip address)?
Yes, there is a reason to do this, albeit ugly: I need to pass an IOR to a

We recently upgraded our system from JDK 1.3.1 to 1.4.2_05 and now we are
experiencing strange problems in the CORBA layer connected to tnameserv.exe.
If I start a blank tnameserv.exe and run the following test program
(which basicly only connects to the naming service and then ...

I upgraded VisiBroker from 4.5.1 to BES 5.2 VisiBroker.
Now idl2java fails to process macros like:
#define MANDATORY_NOTIFICATION(InterfaceName, NotificationName)        \
void add ## NotificationName ## Listener (in Name name,            \

I have problems using the exception
org.omg.PortableServer.POAPackage.WrongPolicy
in java code, since the 1.4 java compiler complains the exception is
never thrown in the body of the corresponding try statement. The try

now??not so many people talk about corba

I am writing a Java IDL compliant client in Java 1.4.1 for communicating
with a customer's IDL. Now, every time I start my program it generates a new
IOR file. Is there a workaround to make it persistent? Because, the
server(developed by the customer) does not want to re-read the ...