Error connecting to IONA ORB within an EJB

Question

Hi,
I am trying to connect to a remote CORBA server(C++) through my ejb running on PE8.2, but when I init the IONA ORB in the ejb, I get the follwing exception:
Caused by: org.omg.CORBA.INITIALIZE: Exception reading properties, probably this is an applet but no applet parameter supplied to ORB.init vmcid: 0x0 minor code: 0 completed: No
at IE.Iona.OrbixWeb.CORBA.ORB._set_parameters(ORB.java:1573)
at IE.Iona.OrbixWeb.CORBA.ORB.<init>(ORB.java:81)
at IE.Iona.OrbixWeb.CORBA.ORB._create_orb(ORB.java:1611)
at IE.Iona.OrbixWeb.CORBA.ORB._initialise(ORB.java:1545)
at IE.Iona.OrbixWeb.CORBA.ORB.init(ORB.java:1505)
Here is the ORB invocation from my ejb:
public void initOrb(String p_hostName, String p_serverName) {
String[] args = {p_hostName, p_serverName};          
Properties p = new Properties();
          p.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBClass","IE.Iona.OrbixWeb.CORBA.ORB");
          p.setProperty("org.omg.CORBA.ORBSingletonClass", "IE.Iona.OrbixWeb.CORBA.singletonORB");
          // Initialize the ORB
          ORB orb = (ORB)ORB.init(args,p);
     }All the required libs are included in the appserver lib.
I have tried this with JBOSS and it works fine.
Do I need to replace the SunAS ORB libraries with the IONA ORB that I need to use?
Has anyone seen this before?

Answer 1

Hi, Rick
Thanks for your help.
I deleted de application-client.xml file, added the following lines to the web.xml file:
     <ejb-ref>
          <ejb-ref-name>ejb/SessionEJB</ejb-ref-name>
          <ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
          <remote>ar.com.eds.ejb3.model.SessionEJB</remote>
     </ejb-ref>
and now I´m using oracle.j2ee.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory
there is no error, and it doesn´t throw any exception but the following line returns null.
SessionEJB sessionEJB = (SessionEJB)context.lookup("java:comp/env/ejb/SessionEJB");
Its seems the lookup method finds the remote ejb because it doesn´t fail, but it returns null.
Any idea what is wrong?
Mauricio.