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Common Object Request Broker Architecture — Open Issues

  • Acronym: CORBA
  • Issues Count: 45
  • Description: Issues not resolved
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Issues Summary

Key Issue Reported Fixed Disposition Status
CORBA35-440 Ordering of user exception and return values CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-264 Lifecycle Key type definition CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-263 Stream contexts and internalization CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-262 Start and end of context tags CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-261 Definition of stream portability CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-260 Multiple objects on a stream CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-259 Timeout while locking CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-258 Communication failure issue CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-257 Getting the thread ID in a non-transactional lock request CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-256 Freeing of locks at the end of a transaction CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-255 Coordinator remembering LockCoordinator CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-254 Input values for "which" arg of non-trans. LockCoordinator CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-253 Using local thread identification for concurrency CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-252 Common format on stream CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-251 CosGraphs::deep CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-250 performing a compound copy of relationship CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-246 CosCompoundExternalization Service CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-245 CosCompoundExternalization Service (2) CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-244 CosCompoundExternalization Service (3) CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-238 QueryCollection::Collection -- membership scoping CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-237 QueryCollection::Collection -- Adding multiple elements CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-235 QueryCollection::Collection -- finding index CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-236 Query Collection::Collection -- Sharing State CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-234 QueryCollection::Collection -- Iterator Position Invalid CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-233 QueryCollection::Collection -- iterator updating CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-231 QueryCollection::Collection -- reset() exceptions CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-232 QueryCollection::Collection -- destroy methods CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-230 QueryCollection::Collection -- next_n() CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-229 QueryCollection::Collection -- keyed collections CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-228 Questions on CosQuery::QueryableCollection interfaces CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-226 Updating information via query iterators CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-227 Use of MD5 on arguments CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-225 How do iterators handle changing of the data they are pointing at CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-224 Clarification request for section 11.1.5 CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-222 retrieve_element CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-223 Definition of NULL in datafiles without NULL as a concept CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-221 Delegating iterator functionality to the RDBMS CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-220 Query language for operations CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-219 OQS relation to POS CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-217 Malformed PropertyName CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-216 WWW Form output CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-209 Compiler being able to translate from OMG-IDL into ANSI CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-247 $issue.summary CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-248 $issue.summary CORBA 1.2 open
CORBA35-249 $issue.summary CORBA 1.2 open

Issues Descriptions

Ordering of user exception and return values

  • Legacy Issue Number: 16
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: The COM/CORBA Part A spec states that user exceptions go after return values in one place, and before return values in another. (3.2.10.3 and 4.1.3.1)

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Fri, 14 Jun 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:15 GMT

Lifecycle Key type definition

  • Legacy Issue Number: 18
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Several LifeCycle methods take a "key" argument, but do not clarify whether multiple NameComponents are allowed in a key, if ordering matters, etc.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Stream contexts and internalization

  • Legacy Issue Number: 19
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: The Externalization spec does not state how a stream implementation is to discover that a context exists when internalizing an object.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Start and end of context tags

  • Legacy Issue Number: 20
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: The standard stream data format does not define tags to be used to identify the beginning and end of a context.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Definition of stream portability

  • Legacy Issue Number: 21
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: The standard stream format should specify that it is portable across different ORBs and hardware, but not across streamable object implementations whch use different semantic content.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Multiple objects on a stream

  • Legacy Issue Number: 22
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: What happens when multiple calls are made to Stream::externalize() at the top level? Does the stream contain all those objects, and how does a client discover this?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Timeout while locking

  • Legacy Issue Number: 47
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: If the ORB times out while LockSet::lock() is being called, how does the client know if the lock was granted or not?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Tue, 2 Jul 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Communication failure issue

  • Legacy Issue Number: 56
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: If the ORB suffered a communication failure while LockSet::lock() is being called, how does the client know if the lock was granted or not?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Tue, 23 Jul 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Getting the thread ID in a non-transactional lock request

  • Legacy Issue Number: 57
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: In a non-transactional lock request, the lock identity is supposedly based on thread ID. How can the server code get the client thread ID when they may be on different machines?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 24 Jul 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Freeing of locks at the end of a transaction

  • Legacy Issue Number: 58
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: It is not clear whether CosTransactions::Coordinator is responsible for freeing locks at the end of a transaction.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 24 Jul 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Coordinator remembering LockCoordinator

  • Legacy Issue Number: 59
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: CosTransactions Coordinator does not have any IDL method to remember LockCoordinator. How does it know what Lock Coordinators should be informed to drop locks?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 24 Jul 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Input values for "which" arg of non-trans. LockCoordinator

  • Legacy Issue Number: 60
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: For a non-transactional client who wants to get a LockCoordinator, what input values should one use for the "which argument?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 24 Jul 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Using local thread identification for concurrency

  • Legacy Issue Number: 61
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: It seemed more useful for the concurrency service to be non-IDL, and just based on local thread identification.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 24 Jul 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Common format on stream

  • Legacy Issue Number: 466
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: When reading a stream, there is no way of telling where context (limited to calls to begin_context and end_context) end and a new one starts.. Resolved problem with new "tag-byte" 0xFF.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 19 Dec 1996 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

CosGraphs::deep

  • Legacy Issue Number: 469
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: If CosGraphs::deep propagation value is encountered, is the Node"s related object supposed to get copied, too. What if LifeCycleObject delegates to CosCompoundLifeCycle::Operations?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Fri, 3 Jan 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

performing a compound copy of relationship

  • Legacy Issue Number: 470
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: The second pass of operation is to "cause the node and all of its roles" to be copied. How do you get related object of the NEW roles to be the New Node?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Fri, 3 Jan 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

CosCompoundExternalization Service

  • Legacy Issue Number: 476
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: When Node::externalize_node is called, is node responsible for externalizing related object? What happens, if related object isn"t a CosStream::Streamable?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

CosCompoundExternalization Service (2)

  • Legacy Issue Number: 477
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Role in new node are disconnected It"s role of read_graph to correctly establish new relationships. How is that accomplished?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

CosCompoundExternalization Service (3)

  • Legacy Issue Number: 478
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: When internalizing a relationships, how do the "shallow" nodes and roles get included?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Tue, 21 Jan 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- membership scoping

  • Legacy Issue Number: 3
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: I assume that we are allowed to scope membership in a collection via an interface test (e.g, must be rooted off of Collection) and throw an InvalidElement exception?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- Adding multiple elements

  • Legacy Issue Number: 4
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Using collection factories, can you add multiple elements at once, and/or add new create methods?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- finding index

  • Legacy Issue Number: 6
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: On CollectionObj->remove_element_at(IteratorRef), how does the collection "know" the index?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Query Collection::Collection -- Sharing State

  • Legacy Issue Number: 5
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: How do IteratorObjs and CollectionObjs share state?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- Iterator Position Invalid

  • Legacy Issue Number: 7
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: What does the IteratorPositionInvalid exception mean? Is it only that the user has cycled through the list elements and that no reset() has been issued?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- iterator updating

  • Legacy Issue Number: 8
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: How does the Iterator know to become invalid when the Collection is altered?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- reset() exceptions

  • Legacy Issue Number: 10
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Can an iterator "reset()" throw an exception such as IteratorPositionInvalid if it is wrapping a db cursor which has no facility for reset?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- destroy methods

  • Legacy Issue Number: 9
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Where are the destroy methods on the Iterator or on the Collection?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- next_n()

  • Legacy Issue Number: 11
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Can an interator have a next_n()? Or is this supposed to be via subtyping the interface?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

QueryCollection::Collection -- keyed collections

  • Legacy Issue Number: 12
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Is it correct to offer the vanilla collection methods and add a new set for keyed access?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Questions on CosQuery::QueryableCollection interfaces

  • Legacy Issue Number: 13
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Clarifications on interfaces which support QueryableCollection.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 16 May 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Updating information via query iterators

  • Legacy Issue Number: 69
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: When using iterator operations like adding, inserting, etc., how are changes reflected back to the datastores?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Tue, 13 Aug 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Use of MD5 on arguments

  • Legacy Issue Number: 23
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Appendix D states that a challenge structure consists of the MD5 of the arguments, but does not specify how the arguments are laid into a stream of octets for the MD5 algorithm.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

How do iterators handle changing of the data they are pointing at

  • Legacy Issue Number: 78
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Is it not possible that objects in a collection could have changed in between calls to the iterator accessing them?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Clarification request for section 11.1.5

  • Legacy Issue Number: 79
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Several of the bullets in section 11.1.5 are unclear.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

retrieve_element

  • Legacy Issue Number: 81
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: How does this operation work?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Definition of NULL in datafiles without NULL as a concept

  • Legacy Issue Number: 80
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Section 11.4.2 para. 3 says that FieldValues may be NULL. What if my datastore is a flat file without a concept of NULL. Does NULL take on the value of empty string for flat files?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Delegating iterator functionality to the RDBMS

  • Legacy Issue Number: 82
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Is there a way that I can delegate the functionality of the Iterators to the RDBMS itself?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Query language for operations

  • Legacy Issue Number: 83
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Need all operations on the Collection be made using the SQL-92/QOL-93? If so, how is it possible to handle flat file datastores?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

OQS relation to POS

  • Legacy Issue Number: 84
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Need the OQS have any interface with the POS? I don"t see how the two can be interfaced.

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 15 Aug 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Malformed PropertyName

  • Legacy Issue Number: 284
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: It is not believed that the spec ever defines what a "malformed" PropertyName is. The closest definition is in para on page 26, section 5.1.1.2 and is not much help

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Sat, 19 Oct 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

WWW Form output

  • Legacy Issue Number: 535
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Issue regarding implementation of the Query IDL specifications on a Java ORB. Issue involves implementing following idl definition from the CosQueryCollection module

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 6 Mar 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

Compiler being able to translate from OMG-IDL into ANSI

  • Legacy Issue Number: 184
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:

    Summary: Existing software based on messages with ASNI format description and a future version based on IDL. Does anybody know something about such a compiler?

  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Mon, 14 Oct 1996 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:14 GMT

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  • Legacy Issue Number: 473
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:
  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 8 Jan 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 21:59 GMT

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  • Legacy Issue Number: 472
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:
  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Wed, 8 Jan 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 21:59 GMT

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  • Legacy Issue Number: 471
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Anonymous
  • Summary:
  • Reported: CORBA 1.2 — Thu, 9 Jan 1997 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 21:59 GMT