GNU Classpath CORBA obtains the official Vendor Minor Code Id: 0x47430 ("GC").

[Meskauskas Audrius]

Andrew Watson , Vice President and Technical Director of the Object 
Management Group, has officially assigned us 20 bit Vendor Minor Code 
Id: 0x47430 ("GC"). We must use this Id to mark remote Classpath - 
specific system exceptions that other applications may receive from our 
CORBA implementation, while working together. The Id provides namespace 
for 4096 possible exceptions. Until now, we used the code 0x00000 
("experimental - anybody can use without registration").

Obtaining the VMCID means that GNU Classpath now is a recogniseable type 
of node in the highly interoperable CORBA world. Any CORBA server or 
client can recognise our exception even if it was thrown from the other 
end of the world and the platform of the remote corresponent was 
initially unknown. This should increase the possibility for us to get a 
bug report.

The Vice President also requested from us a web page URL where we should 
describe that our exception codes mean and, if we want, provide other 
information, how to interoperate with our ORB. The simpliest solution is 
to create it in Classpath Wiki - we must just be sure that the page will 
stay available in the future. This URL will be included into the Vendor 
Tag List, together with our VMCID.

The vendor tag list (old): http://www.omg.org/docs/ptc/05-04-04.txt
The documentation about the VMCID: http://www.omg.org/docs/ptc/99-02-01.pdf

I think, we may list this event in the Classpath news.

Audrius.

> Here's the entry I've created for you in the CORBA tags file:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Holder:       GNU Classpath project
> Contact:      Audrius Meskauskas
> Email:        <address@hidden>
> URL:
> Last update:  29th September 2005
> Status:       Current
>
>   1 VMCID           0x47430xxx               ("GC\x00\x00" - "GC\x0f\xff")
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The URL field in the entry is optional - the intention is to put in the URL
> of a page designed to help programmers debugging interoperation with your
> ORB. Here are some examples:
>
>    ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/misc/ilu-use-of-omg-tags.html
>
>    http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE_wrappers/TAO/docs/Tags.html
>
> If you have a page like this I would be happy to put it in the allocation
> file.
>
>                            Regards,
>
>                                 Andrew
> Andrew Watson                              Tel:     +44 1223 510398
> Vice President & Technical Director,       Email:   address@hidden
> Object Management Group                    http://www.omg.org/~andrew
>
>
>