Hello colleagues.

What I need is to start a RMI/IIOP server on PC other than JBoss , register this server using JBoss JNDI, and access it using JBoss ORB (JacORB), first externally and later from session beans.

I found no tutorials/examples for this task, and also have no success in my own attempts.

Firstly , as I understood, JBoss should be started in "all" configuration to provide JacORB - is it correct ?

Let's consider standard RMI/IIOP tutorial from Sun (Hello) . In this tutorial, Sun's ORB "orbd.exe" is used , and I quickly got this example working (all three components of different PCs) .

Is it possible to make the same client and server working over JacORB instead of orbd.exe ?

I tried to use jndi.properties with the same parameters as I used to access bean interfaces :

java.naming.factory.initial=org.jnp.interfaces.NamingContextFactory
java.naming.provider.url=jnp://192.168.2.16:1099
java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.naming:org.jnp.interfaces

Also I tried to put following properties to this file :

java.security.policy=./client.policy
org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass=org.jacorb.orb.ORB
org.omg.CORBA.ORBSingletonClass=org.jacorb.orb.ORBSingleton
org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialHost=192.168.2.16
org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitialPort=3528

client.policy is
grant {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

It seems that server registers successfully in JNDI
(context.rebind... )
But client is unable to obtain a reference to server. On context.lookup client program raises the following exception:

Exception javax.naming.CommunicationException [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloImpl (no security manager: RMI class loader disabled)].

Again : same client ad server works fine, when I start
orbd.exe on the same PC where JBoss running. In this case, it is enough to have only following couple of lines in jndi.properties :

java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.cosnaming.CNCtxFactory
java.naming.provider.url=iiop://192.168.2.16:1051

(1051 is prot which i used in orbd.exe)

Any advices, examples or references would be greatly appreciated !

TIA,
Daniel