Thanks Simon.
You were right.. I forgot that I had overwritten the TestOperation
setOutputType() call to effectively no-op, so I wasn't building the
response correctly.
I'll share one thing I did learn (in case someone or myself has to
search email for a problem like this in the future).
By running with the IBM JDK, you get an "orbtrc" trace file, and by
adding this to my maven command line:
-DargLine="-Dcom.ibm.CORBA.Debug=true -Dcom.ibm.CORBA.CommTrace=true"
it gets a detailed trace with eyecatcher.
This let me see pretty clearly that my "app" data wasn't in the "bad"
IIOP payload..just the header/context/etc. info.
Scott