Java's CORBA ORB and connecting to a 3rd party Naming Service

Answer 1

It's been more than 10 happy years since CORBA was last inflicted on me, but I still remember a few things.

The "not recommended" way is to use a IOR (Interoperable Naming Reference), which is CORBA's equivalent of a URL. The IOR is essentially a string representation of the location of a live CORBA object. A client can convert the IOR into a handle on that object.

Normally, the IOR itself points to a CoS Naming Service, which is a registry of other objects, but it's lust as valid to have an IOR that points directly at a remote object.

See this ancient article (from 1999, the last time anyone cared about CORBA) to see how to deal with IORs.