Hi Jon,
maybe a packet sniffer could be useful, see for example
http://www.ethereal.com.
Regards,
Thomas
Bruno Dumant wrote:
>
>
> Jon Allen wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a bit of input... right now I have a corba application
>> that takes input from multiple "vendors"... I dont know what else to
>> call
>> them... multiple types of servers implemented by different people. We
>> all
>> have the same idl, but some of the parameters are different... when my
>> application fails I need some way to look at what was sent, so I wrote a
>> libpcap piece and have it ready to send data to a new orb (something on
>> the same network as our client, looking at the same data that it is
>> recieving, but not interacting), so thats where I'm at now. Here's the
>> problem that I'm looking for a work around for... I want to
>> initialize an
>> orb, but I dont want it to look at the ior portion, or send any data
>> back.
>> I could implement the iiop protocol again and the idl methods... but
>> that
>> doesnt sound like fun (actually it does, but I dont have time). I've
>> been
>> poking around the javadocumentation, but I was going to ask around a bit
>> first.
>
> If I understand well, you're interested in building some fake client,
> just analyzing what's being sent back to your real client.
>
> This could be done in Jonathan, but it is not completely
> straightforward. You will have to :
>
> * make your fake client listen on a socket where the reply data
> will be sent ;
> * patch a little bit GIOPProtocol so that the request number is
> ignored, and all data sent to a waiting stub ;
> * add lots of trace instructions to get the appropriate information.
>
> It's certainly easier than re-developping completely the IIOP
> protocol, but it is not so easy to do if you're not familiar with the
> internals of Jonathan.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bruno
>
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