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Hi:

We currently have CORBA java objects (using visibroker) providing
services to our clients who use visibroker also.  This of course works
well.  But now we have other people trying to take advantage of our
services but they don't have visibroker and there is no plan to get
one because of budget issue.  I tested the CORBA support in jdk 1.3
and it did not work with visibroker 4.5.1.  I also looked into java
web services and found that it only works with jdk 1.3 or 1.4.  But
all our backend services are running using jdk 1.2.2 and the plan for
going to jdk 1.3 is not near and so using java web services to
encapsulate the knowledge of CORBA on the client side became
impossible (if client side does not need CORBA software, money for
license can be saved).  So it looks to me that what's left are two
options:

1. write a java client and talk to a java wrapper of the CORBA
services on the server side thru RMI which is free.

2. write a java client and use http post to a servlet which then talks
to the CORBA services.

Are these really the only options I can have?  Are there other better
ways?

Thanks in advance.