Re: Remote connection

["Sam Couter" <scouter bigpond net au>]

Katherine Goude <katherine.goude@baesystems.com> wrote:
> I can't use this method over a network so what other methods are there?

Any way that you like. HTTP, FTP, shared NFS filesystems, carrier
pigeon. The problem is not solved within CORBA itself, but different
vendors provide different ways to bootstrap.

I think the linc library used by ORBit2 helps solve the problem by
allowing you to retrieve an IOR over HTTP.

> Also I'm confused as to how remote clients/servers work with ORBit in
> general. Do you need to give the IP address of the server at some point?

The IOR contains information like network address and port. You need to
give the IOR to the client.

You also need to enable the IPv4 profile on the machine running the
server. Make sure the line "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" appears in /etc/orbitrc on
the machine running the server.

> If any of you know of a good webpage to explain this I'd appreciate it.

When I'm looking for CORBA resources, I usually start at
http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net/ or http://www.omg.org/ or just
simply google for it.
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