How to init ORB from property file?

Question

I would like to init my ORB from property file (normally I init it like this, while running my examples: ./app -ORBInitRef NameService=corbaloc::localhost:2809/NameService)

I wrote a simple code:

private static String[] readConfigFile()
{
    Properties prop = new Properties();
    String arg[] = new String[1];
    try 
    {
        prop.load(new FileInputStream("config.properties"));
    } catch (IOException ex) {}
    arg[0] = prop.getProperty("ORBInitRef");
    return arg;
}

and then tried to init my orb:

clientsORB = org.omg.CORBA.ORB.init(readConfigFile(), null);

but there are some errors:

2012-11-01 12:15:36 com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl <init>
WARNING: "IOP00410201: (COMM_FAILURE) Connection failure: socketType: IIOP_CLEAR_TEXT; hostname: 127.0.1.1; port: 900"
org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE:   vmcid: SUN  minor code: 201  completed: No
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.connectFailure(ORBUtilSystemException.java:2172)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.connectFailure(ORBUtilSystemException.java:2193)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.<init>(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:223)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.<init>(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:236)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelContactInfoImpl.createConnection(SocketOrChannelContactInfoImpl.java:119)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientRequestDispatcherImpl.beginRequest(CorbaClientRequestDispatcherImpl.java:168)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientDelegateImpl.request(CorbaClientDelegateImpl.java:136)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.resolver.BootstrapResolverImpl.invoke(BootstrapResolverImpl.java:99)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.resolver.BootstrapResolverImpl.resolve(BootstrapResolverImpl.java:132)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.resolver.CompositeResolverImpl.resolve(CompositeResolverImpl.java:47)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.resolver.CompositeResolverImpl.resolve(CompositeResolverImpl.java:47)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.resolver.CompositeResolverImpl.resolve(CompositeResolverImpl.java:47)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.orb.ORBImpl.resolve_initial_references(ORBImpl.java:1174)
        at ClientConnection.connect(ClientConnection.java:68)
        at Client.main(Client.java:303)
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
        at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Native Method)
        at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:525)
        at java.nio.channels.SocketChannel.open(SocketChannel.java:164)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.DefaultSocketFactoryImpl.createSocket(DefaultSocketFactoryImpl.java:78)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.<init>(SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.java:206)
        ... 12 more

My config.properties file:

ORBInitRef NameService=corbaloc::localhost:2809/NameService

What I did wrong? When I init my ORB normally, everything is great, so its not the code issue, its definitely problem with initialization from file.

Answer 1

You have to add -ORBInitRef to the ORB arguments also. Compare it to the commandline you normaly use. ALL the arguments have to be passed to the ORB.init()

config.properties:

ORBInitRef NameService=corbaloc::localhost:2809/NameService 

Java Code using it (ReadProps.java)

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.omg.CORBA.ORB;

public class ReadProps {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ORB clientsORB = org.omg.CORBA.ORB.init(readConfigFile(), null);
    }

    static String[] readConfigFile() {
        Properties prop = new Properties();
        String[] orbarg = new String[2];

        try {
            // load a properties file
            prop.load(new FileInputStream("config.properties"));
            // get the property value and print it out  
            orbarg[0] = "-ORBInitRef"; // <---- NEEDED
            orbarg[1] = prop.getProperty("ORBInitRef");

        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        return orbarg;
    }

}