I have some questions about strategies for avoiding firewall issues with CORBA. I understand that there is several techniques included with JacORB that allow for firewall transversal such as the HTTP tunneling and the Appligator but they don't seem like they fit our needs. The issues we have with firewalls in our application has to do with blocked ports. I understand HTTP tunneling is good for this, but it is only compatible with other JacORB objects. This is not going to work for us because we us TAO on our server. I also noticed in the documentation that the Appligator creates a proxy type object that will filter requests through a given port. This sounds like what we need, but I am not sure how interoperable it is between ORBs. Does JacOrb have the smarts built into it so that when it is using the Appligator it will create IORs and requests that can be sent to TAO objects and vice versa?
We ideally would like to use BiDirectional IIOP, but the OCI version of TAO we are currently using does not support this. In our OCI version of TAO (Hopefully this will be in subsequent releases of TAO from the DOC group) there is an option for restricting the ORB to use a given port range for connections. Is there any way to perform something similar to this in JacORB? Having both TAO and JacORB configured in this manner would allow us to open just a range of ports in the firewall that all ORB communication would travel. Anyone have any ideas on how to get TAO and JacORB to work when firewalls are in the mix? Lance Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
