Interoperability ORBit - Visibroker

[Sergiu Gavrila <sg itdesign de>]

Hi all,

I have some problems when I use ORBit (ORBit-20000902) as a client for 
Visibroker 4 CORBA servers. I use ORBit for writing a PHP extension for 
my project.
1. CORBA_ORB_object_to_string method return NULL and prints a warning 
when receives as a parameter a reference to a Visibroker object, that I 
got from the naming service.
** WARNING **: Bug in CORBA_ORB_object_to_string, created bad IOR 
`IOR:010000001900000049444c3a4c412f4c697374656e616e73696368743a312e3000000000020000000000000048000000010100000e0000003139322e3136382e312e313838000dc92c00000000564201000000115642526f6f74504f412f626f615f74700020202000000002323820203a9e3d0c000d97bd'
as David Erikkson has noticed, the IOR is indeed bad, but why does this 
happened? The rest of the method invocations on the same reference works 
fine.

2. I have a Visibroker 4 server that has one method for transforming a 
reference into a string. The server works with a Visibroker client, but 
crashes (together with the client and with a Speicherzugriffsfehler 
message) when I use ORBit, but only if the reference send is one to a 
Visibroker server, and before any of the object implementation code is 
called.

I will be very happy to have the  CORBA_ORB_object_to_string method 
working. Anybody there with the same problem and maybe with a solution?

Sergiu Gavrila