#162 J2SE 1.5 And JavaWebStart

[Jose Pedro Pereira]

Wen starting the ORB in a Java Web Started Signed
Application with the Sun Java Runtime Environment
1.5.0, an exception raises stating that RMI/IIOP will not
work because of an "Unknown VM Vendor" error - It can
not create a CDRInputStream. Example (must install
JRE1.5 and Java Web Start and enable the JRE1.5 in the
Java Web Start Control Applet and by the way the Java
Console) at http://elab.ist.utl.pt/rec (Link to Full
Laboratory)

[Lars Kühne]

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This is not related to WebStart, the Sun 1.5 JVM is not
fully supported yet - sending serializables in a valuetype
will not work there.

In all announced versions (including 1.4.0 BETA 2) the ORB
would therefore abort during startup.

The latest nightly builds contain a fix that by default
defers the error until you actually try marshalling
Serializables in a valuetype, the exact behaviour can be
controlled using the new iiop.deserializationEngine
property. See WHATSNEW file for details.

Leaving this bug open until Sun JDK 1.5 is fully supported.