Re: linc & ORBit2 ABI / API stable releases ....

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Bill,

On 17 May 2002, Bill Haneman wrote:

> There is some chance that there are dragons yet to be slayed in the
> inter-orb world I fear, as weird stuff happens when talking to the Java
> ORB.  I would feel more at ease if we waited at least until I can get
> advice (from Michael and/or Mark).  Unfortunately we don't have bugs
> filed yet since it would seem prudent to have clearer test cases.
> However, using at-poke (without disabling sanity checks) with
> java-access-bridge, the returned objects fail CORBA_Object_is_a () when
> queried for their base type.  Probably a java-access-bridge bug, but we
> don't know yet.

	We shouldn't delay a release of this nature because of a fear
of possible interop bugs. The fixes for them would be highly, highly
unlikely to affect API/ABI stability.

	You should try and nail down bugs of this nature to a small
specific test case.

Good Luck,
Mark.