Perl => CORBA <= C++

[Mark Wigzell <markwigzell home com>]

Greetings,
Although still "star eyed" about the possibilites of CORBA for providing
independence between my C++ program and it's data base, I have run into
early snags. I *MUST* use a new enough Orbit release that the ORBitc++
can use. But the newer Orbit seems to break the orbit-perl. I suppose this
is a known phenomenon? ( I want to use PERL on the "back end" of my CORBA 
to read/write a postgres db. Also, I want to use PERL/CGI to access the db
through CORBA for db maintenance via the Web.

          C++ App              Web service with Perl/CGI
             |                    | 
             -----CORBA-----------
                    |
                Postgres db updated via Perl
I am using: 
ORBit-0.5.7
CORBA-ORBit-0.4.3
on RedHat 7.1. The server/client example in CORBA-ORBit doesn't run
properly. Cutting out some code, and using a long instead of fixed<> 
gets the "deposit()" method to work. But passing a string argument
from the client to the server causes exceptions to be thrown.  I discovered
that if the string consists of more than one word (i.e contains whitespace )
then it works! (but of course, thats not usable)

I could post the nasty details, but I thought I'd test the water first, and
see if this is just a teething problem, or cronic?
Also, if anyone cares to comment about my proposed implementation strategy,
pls do, I need all the help I can get!!
Thanx
... Mark