[Biocorba-l] Persistent IOR for the EMBL Biocorba server (fwd)

[Alan Robinson]

OK - The EMBL Biocorba CORBA server is again serving data when you
connect. Apologies for the unexpected outage.


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On Tue, 29 May 2001, Alan Robinson wrote:

> 
> Good news: The EMBL Biocorba-0.2.0 CORBA server is up and running.
> 
> Bad news: A database server upon which it is dependant has failed over the
> Bank Holiday weekend (so you'll get connection errors). We're
> investigating currently...
> 
> 
> Regarding the persistence of the IOR: The IOR itself is persistent across
> multiple re-starts of the server. The location of the URL is also
> persistent, and is where we keep a multitude of IORs.
> 
> I'd recommend using the URL in any hard-coded clients, rather than
> distributing the IOR itself.
> 
> 
> Alan.