I2JAV12 — OMG Java Language Mapping and the use of Java null

We here at Nortel Networks use CORBA extensively. However, we
have a question regarding the use of Java null, and the most
recent OMG spec seems to have some mixed messages.

Section 1.4.1.5 has been there for some time, and it is pretty
clear what is legal and what is illegal.

However, in section 1.4.1.4, it seems to say that in the Holder
class, the Java Strings are initialized to null rather than "".

We are asking this question because it is affecting one of
our software products. We are getting org.omg.CORBA.BAD_PARAM
exception once in a while.

We are using Sun's JRE ORB(JRE 1.3.1_01).

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