[jacorb-developer] Illegal IDL Name in Orb Singleton

[Klint Qinami]

Hello everyone,

We are using JacORB in a client application to control CORBA objects in a different environment. The CORBA object in the other environment are using a different ORB (orbExpress). We can communicate with the objects on the environment but there is a case where we get a CORBA exception. It happen in the case we invoke an operation on the remote object that returns a structure with few fields, on of them being a sequence of the same type of structure. On of the field of the structure is of type CORBA::Object. The following is the error message and stack trace we obtain on the client side

Exception in thread "main" org.omg.CORBA.BAD_PARAM: Illegal IDL name: CORBA::Object vmcid: 0x0 minor code: 15 completed: No
at org.jacorb.orb.ORBSingleton.checkTCName(ORBSingleton.java:337)
at org.jacorb.orb.ORBSingleton.create_interface_tc(ORBSingleton.java:543)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.ObjectReferenceTypeCodeReader.doReadTypeCode(ObjectReferenceTypeCodeReader.java:45)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.AbstractTypeCodeReader.readTypeCode(AbstractTypeCodeReader.java:54)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.DelegatingTypeCodeReader.doReadTypeCode(DelegatingTypeCodeReader.java:123)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.DelegatingTypeCodeReader.readTypeCode(DelegatingTypeCodeReader.java:103)
at org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream.read_TypeCode(CDRInputStream.java:1338)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.StructTypeCodeReader.doReadTypeCodeInternal(StructTypeCodeReader.java:42)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.ComplexTypeCodeReader.doReadTypeCode(ComplexTypeCodeReader.java:47)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.AbstractTypeCodeReader.readTypeCode(AbstractTypeCodeReader.java:54)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.DelegatingTypeCodeReader.doReadTypeCode(DelegatingTypeCodeReader.java:123)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.DelegatingTypeCodeReader.readTypeCode(DelegatingTypeCodeReader.java:103)
at org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream.read_TypeCode(CDRInputStream.java:1338)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.SequenceTypeCodeReader.doReadTypeCode(SequenceTypeCodeReader.java:37)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.AbstractTypeCodeReader.readTypeCode(AbstractTypeCodeReader.java:54)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.DelegatingTypeCodeReader.doReadTypeCode(DelegatingTypeCodeReader.java:123)
at org.jacorb.orb.typecode.DelegatingTypeCodeReader.readTypeCode(DelegatingTypeCodeReader.java:103)
at org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream.read_TypeCode(CDRInputStream.java:1338)
at org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream.read_TypeCode(CDRInputStream.java:1324)
at org.jacorb.orb.CDRInputStream.read_any(CDRInputStream.java:675)
at CF.DataTypeHelper.read(DataTypeHelper.java:63)
at CF.PropertiesHelper.read(PropertiesHelper.java:66)
at CF.ComponentTypeHelper.read(ComponentTypeHelper.java:67)
at CF._ApplicationFactoryStub.create(_ApplicationFactoryStub.java:126)
at DomainManagerWrapper.instantiateApplication(DomainManagerWrapper.java:200)
at Verifier.verify(Verifier.java:39)

at WTP.main(WTP.java:40)

As a test, we replaced JacORB on the client side with the Java ORB provided with the JRE and the client program works fine.

Do you have any idea can be the problem and the solution for this issue? I believe the ORB in the other environment is implementing CORBA 2.5. Is it possible that JacORB has an interoperability issue with such ORB?
Best,
Klint