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  • Issues Count: 3
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Description of ORB.init parameters insufficient

  • Key: I2JAV13-2
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3643
  • Status: open  
  • Source: International Business Machines ( Russell Butek)
  • Summary:

    I have a number of questions/concerns about the description/usage of
    ORB.init arguments/properties.

    1. There are only two properties described in the Java mapping spec:
    org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass and org.omg.CORBA.ORBSingletonClass. Setting these
    via property are described, but not setting these via application string
    array (ie., args in main). Yet the spec says these values can be obtained
    via the args array. I believe most folks assume "-ORBClass xxx" is the
    convention, since that's what the JDK's ORB uses, but it's not documented.

    2. Ditto for applet parameters. It's assumed that they are of the form

    <param name = "org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass" value = "xxx">

    but it is not documented.

    3. Can this convention be generalized to accommodate the argument naming
    convention in the core spec? If we follow the convention that says
    org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass becomes -ORBClass; then can we say that a parameter
    -ORBXXX may also be specified by the property or applet parameter
    org.omg.CORBA.ORBXXX?

    4. The text around the ORB arguments is tightly coupled to only ORBClass
    and ORBSingletonClass. It does not seem to expect other args/properties.
    For example: "...when creating an ORB instance, the class names of the ORB
    implementation are located using the following search order: ...". I
    assume the following search order also applies to any args/props.

    5. The spec doesn't allow for extensions.

    "See Table 1-3 for a list of the property names and values that are
    recognized by
    ORB.init. Any property names not in this list shall be ignored by
    ORB.init()."

    Has the INS spec updated this table with -ORBInitRef and
    -ORBDefaultInitRef, for example? And the interceptor spec assumes that
    services are allowed to have their own arguments. And what about
    proprietary extensions? Given the word "shall", any extensions are
    non-CORBA-compliant.

    6. Repeated arguments fall apart when presented as Properties. For
    example, the INS spec allows for the following invocation:

    java myapp -ORBInitRef XX=xx -ORBInitRef YY=yy -ORBInitRef ZZ=zz

    Since Properties entries are <key, value> pairs, and only one pair for a
    given key can exist, then if we tried entering the above as Properties we'd
    only get on of them, not all. I'm not sure how to fix this. Dictate that
    XX, YY, ZZ be the end of the ORBInitRef string rather than the start of a
    new string, perhaps? So then, specifying these as system properties for
    example, we'd have:

    java myapp -Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitRefXX xx -Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitRefYY yy
    -Dorg.omg.CORBA.ORBInitRefZZ zz

    That causes ugly parsing problems. We'd have to search the whole list of
    properties that contained a key that merely BEGAN with
    "org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitRef". And this falls apart in applets; we can get a
    list of all Properties, but we cannot get a list of all applet parameters.
    Personally I think this is a failing in the applet class, but that's life
    as we know it.

    I'm sorry to raise this as one issue instead of six, but most of these
    points are tightly coupled, so I didn't want to distance them from each
    other. And I'd like them all to be answered together anyway.

  • Reported: I2JAV 1.0 — Thu, 25 May 2000 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Messaging sendc and sendp missing from portability interfaces

  • Key: I2JAV13-3
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3068
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Ericsson ( Chris Smith)
  • Summary:

    The Messaging Specification was adopted before Java Portability
    layer was really in place. In order to make portability work
    with the asynchronous stubs which will in future be generated,
    some things may be added to the portability interface.

    Each stub has a sendc_<op> and sendp_<op> operation which
    will need to call on the portable stub layer.

    A first glance at the requirements to make a portable
    implementation suggest that a sendc_invoke and sendp_invoke
    operation will probably need to be added to ObjectImpl and
    Delegate.

    I dont know if this is viewed as a "compatible" class change
    for JDK, or whether we will need to put derived classes
    in CORBA_3_0 package....

  • Reported: I2JAV 1.0 — Tue, 23 Nov 1999 05:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT

Java ORB Id

  • Key: I2JAV13-1
  • Legacy Issue Number: 3665
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Oracle ( Harold Carr)
  • Summary:

    There are several reasons that Java ORB.init should support
    ORBId (without compromising security). For example:

    • Services built on Portable Interceptors work in relation to the ORB
      with which they are registered. There needs to be some means of
      identifying this ORB (besides its reference) so other services or
      facades (e.g., JNDI) can use the same ORB.
    • A Server Activation Framework needs an ORB Id to identify a particular
      orb (which hosts a persistent POA) within a server. The triple:
      server id, orb id, poa name is conceptually embedded in the adapter
      id of a POA making it unique.
  • Reported: I2JAV 1.0 — Tue, 30 May 2000 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 11:15 GMT