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diff --git a/TAO/examples/Simple/time/README b/TAO/examples/Simple/time/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5c67c8bbf4f --- /dev/null +++ b/TAO/examples/Simple/time/README @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +$Id$ + +This is a simple CORBA example that has an object (Time) with two +methods: one that returns the current time of day and another that +shuts down the server. There are clients programs written in both C++ +and Java to access the simple Time service. The Java client uses +JACE's GetOpt class to parse the command line arguments. See + + http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/JACE.html + http://ace.cs.wustl.edu/cvsweb/ace-latest.cgi/ACE_wrappers/java/JACE/Misc/GetOpt.java + +for more details. + +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 descrbed by +the -n option below. + +server: +------- + +server [-nd] [-o <ior_output_file>] + +Options: +------- +-o Outputs the server ior to the file + +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) + +The -o option makes it easier to run from a script because the ior +passing is done through the <ior_output_file>. + +-d Debug flag +-n Use the naming service + +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>] [-n iterations] [-k ior] + +Options: +------- +-d Debug flag +-x Tells the server to shutdown at the end of the test. +-f Reads the server ior from the file +-n Use the naming service +-k IOR or The IOR can also be given in the format like file://[file.ior] + with the full path + +You can either cut and paste the IOR from the server to the client +(with the -k option), or have the client read the IOR from a file +using the -f option. (This file is produced using the -o option with the +server.) |