Re: Interoperability of Orbit2

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Munaut,

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 15:00, Munaut Sylvain wrote:
> I'd like to use a Orbit2 server on a Linux machine with a MacOSX client 
> using Objective C implementation of corba (ADORB). ADORB use IIOP 1.0 or 
> 1.1.
> It works fine ( or almost, some times it just hangs ... ) with Orbit1. 
> But not with Orbit2. Is'nt it backward compatible with IIOP 1.1 ?

	How very odd. Yes ORBit2 is intended to be backwards compatible.

> Appenrently, it should be since A Orbit1 client can connect to my orbit2 
> server ...

	Right; interesting - presumably request processing changes then.

> The macosx apps connects to the server but the argument passing fails. 
> For example, I have a 'long' argument and I always recive the same value 
> 1074140992, It's always the same ( I can reboot client and server, it 
> will always be ... ). And when I try to return a long, the client always 
> receive 0 ... Weird isn't it ?

	Can you re-build ORBit2 with --enable-debug; then export
ORBIT2_DEBUG=traces:giop, re-run the server, and post a link to the
output.

	Thanks,

		Michael.

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