Java 1.4.1 and Perl CORBA::ORBit

[Jason Crickmer <jason agentelf com>]

I have been trying to get Java and Perl to talk to each other for the
past few days, and I have not had much success.  I read a few posts to
this list that recommended ORBit2 and Java >=1.4, but unfortunately,
moving to ORBit2 is not much of an option for me.

The problem I am having is that with a Java "server" and a Perl
"client", method invocations hang and never return.  When accessing the
Java server with a Java client and using orbit-namer-server, there
doesn't seem to a be a problem.  This leads me to believe it is more or
less between Perl CORBA::ORBit and ORBit (although Perl clients and
servers don't seem to have much trouble communicating).

NameService  Server             Client             result
------------ ------------------ ------------------ ---------------------
Java 1.4.1   Java 1.4.1         Java 1.4.1         works
Java 1.4.1   Java 1.4.1         CORBA::ORBit 0.4.7 client orb won't init
ORBit 0.5.16 Java 1.4.1         Java 1.4.1         works
ORBit 0.5.16 Java 1.4.1         CORBA::ORBit 0.4.7 hangs
ORBit 0.5.16 CORBA::ORBit 0.4.7 CORBA::ORBit 0.4.7 works
 

Does anyone have any insight into this, or can possibly point me in the
right direction?

Best regards,
Jason