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From: vinoski@apollo.hp.com (Steve Vinoski)
Subject: Re: ORB interoperability (was internet enabled smalltalk)
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In article <550r8k$ivc@mblisd.macquarie.com.au>,
Sherman Wood <swood@macquarie.com.au> wrote:
>Even though Orbix now has a naming service, at the moment you have to get a 
>stringified reference to get to it !. This will probably change with Orbix 2.1, 
>which has some changes which allow a developer to build up a consistent 
>reference programmatically. I don't know about other ORBs

With HP ORB Plus, you can get the object reference for the Naming
Service (and in the next release, the Trading Service) from
ORB::resolve_initial_references(), just like CORBA 2.0 says you're
supposed to be able to.

--steve

P.S. Say hi to Doug Moss for me.

Steve Vinoski  vinoski@apollo.hp.com    (508)436-5904
HP ORB Plus Development Team       fax: (508)436-5122
Hewlett-Packard, Chelmsford, MA 01824

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