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diff --git a/TAO/examples/Simple/echo/README b/TAO/examples/Simple/echo/README deleted file mode 100644 index 0420d5d5833..00000000000 --- a/TAO/examples/Simple/echo/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,82 +0,0 @@ -$Id$ - -This is a simple CORBA example that has an object (Echo) with only two -methods, one that returns the message to be displayed and another that -shuts down the server. - -run_test.pl : This is a perl script to run the server and client as : ------------- - server -o ior_file - client -f ior_file - -This perl script runs the server and client and shuts down the server -when it is done. - -Passing the Server IOR to Clients: ---------------------------------- - -To keep this example simple, the server advertises its IOR in the -following manner - The server program writes its server object's IOR -to a ior_file. Later on, the client reads this IOR from the specified -ior_file and uses the <string_to_object> method to obtain a reference -to the server object. - -For this mechanism to work, the file must be readable and writable. If -it doesn't exist, a new file is created by the server. Moreover, the -file path must be accessible to both the client and server. - -If the client and server are on different machine, then there must be -a shared directory accessible by both. On UNIX system's this is -typically done via the NFS mount command. On Windows, the 'explorer' -application provides an option to share drives. - -In general if no such file sharing option is available, then using the -the Naming Service mechanism is the only alternative, as described by -the -n option below. - -server: -------- - -server [-d] [-o <ior_output_file>] [-n] - -Options: -------- --d Debug flag (It is additive more -d flags will give debugging). --o Outputs the ior to the file - The ior is the reference using which the client can interact with - the target server object. --n Use the naming service - -When the server is started, you should see as the first line of output -something that looks like - - iiop:1.0//danzon.cs.wustl.edu:10015/P35ad159600081a38/child_poa/server - (-ORBobjrefstyle url) -or - IOR:000000000000001649444c3a43756269745... - (-ORBobjrefstyle ior) - -Using -d turns on debugging messages. This option is additive, i.e., -the more -d options provided, the more debugging you can get. At the -moment, only 2 levels of debugging are implemented, and more than 2 -d -options are ignored. - -client: -------- - -client [-d] [-x] [-f <Server_ior_file>] [-k ior] [-n naming service] - -Options: -------- --d Debug flag --x Tells the server to shutdown at the end of the test. --f Reads the server ior from the file --k IOR or The IOR can also be given in the format like file://[file.ior] - with the full path - --n Use the naming service - -You can either cut and paste the IOR from the server to the client -(with the -k option), have the client read the IOR from a file using -the -f option (this file is produced using the -o option of the -server), or use the naming service (with the -n option). |