I have just found a nasty race condition in my java servant which can
only be explained if the CORBA event dispatching in OrbixWeb occurs
using multiple threads. Does it? Can any OrbixWeb/IONA expert comment
please?

I have a very perplexing problem, which has left me tearing my hair
out...
I've written a small java app, which is basically a data consumer
which connects (using JacORB) to a data provider (which uses Tao). The

I am a novice to CORBA, I am trying to run the dds demo of JACORB, I
managed to run the demo on a standalone machine but when I try to run
it in a distributed environment, I get the following exception:
org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL: server-side Exception: null vmcid: SUN minor

I've spent ages searching on Google and several newsgroups for an
answer but sadly with no success.
I get an NPE when I try to create my ORB - I'm pretty sure its going
to be down to some config error but the exception isn't helpful at

Orbix 3.0.1. Yes I know. please don't laugh. I am working on a project
where I have to find a way to move off these ancient products. I have
managed to move away from C++ onto java but cannot change the CORBA
product in use at the moment. The Orbix setup includes OrbixWeb which