Official Specifications for CORBA support in J2SE 5.0
Specification References
The specifications with which the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition
(J2SE) 5.0 ORB complies are as follows. If these links do not take
you to the referenced specification, the OMG may have changed the
URL, and you can link to www.omg.org to search for the correct
specification.
These are the only specifications referenced by this document.
Supported Specification Details
Not all of the above specifications are currently implemented in
the ORB in J2SE 5.0. The precise list of supported sections is as
follows:
- CORBA 2.3.1 chapters 1-3 and 6-9
- Revised IDL to Java language mapping, section 1.21.8.2, the
orb.properties file.
- CORBA 2.3.1 chapter 4 with the following replacements from the
Portable Interceptors specification:
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- section 4.2.3.5 destroy
- section 4.5.2 CodeFactory and PICurrent are
required
- Section 4.5.3.4 as updated for
register_initial_reference
- CORBA 2.3.1 chapter 5 with the following update from the
Portable Interceptors specification:
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- 5.5.2 StringSeq and WStringSeq are required.
This adds the following classes to org.omg.CORBA:
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- StringSeqHolder
- StringSeqHelper
- WStringSeqHolder
- WStringSeqHelper
- CORBA 2.3.1 sections 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 are supported for
repository IDs.
- CORBA 2.3.1 section 10.7 for TypeCode APIs.
- CORBA 2.3.1 chapter 11, Portable Object Adapter (POA), with the
following updates from the Portable Interceptors
specification:
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- Section 11.3.7 POAs must preserve all policies
- Section 11.3.8.2 again states that POAs must preserve all
policies
- Section 11.3.8.26 POA::id is required.
- CORBA 2.3.1 chapters 13 and 15 define GIOP 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2.
The J2SE 5.0 ORB fully supports all versions of GIOP, with the
exception that the bi-directional GIOP feature defined in sections
15.8 and 15.9 is not supported.
- All of the Interoperable Naming Service is supported.
- Portable Interceptors section 13.8 (the new
Coder/Decoder interfaces) and all of chapter 21
(the interceptor specification).
- Section 1.21.8 of the Revised IDL to Java Language Mapping
Specification (ptc/00-11-03) has been changed from the version in
the IDL to Java Language Mapping Specification (ptc/00-01-08).
Tools
- The IDL to Java compiler (idlj) complies with:
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- CORBA 2.3.1 chapter 3 (IDL definition)
- CORBA 2.3.1 chapters 5 and 6 (semantics of Value types)
- CORBA 2.3.1 section 10.6.5 (pragmas)
- The IDL to Java mapping specification
- The Revised IDL to Java language mapping specification section
1.12.1 "local interfaces"
- The Java to IDL compiler (the IIOP backend for rmic)
complies with:
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- CORBA 2.3.1 chapters 5 and 6 (value types)
- The Java to IDL language mapping. Note that this implicitly
references section 1.21 of the IDL to Java language mapping
- IDL generated by the -idl flag complies with CORBA
2.3.1 chapter 3.
