IONA Toolkit and Demos

The IONA Toolkit comprises a variety of service tools that help you diagnose problems and improve performance. The tools are grouped by category for easy access.

IONA Customer Services Demos provide guidance and examples to help developers to learn more about and get the best from IONA products.

Diagnostic Tools

Useful Commands and Tips for UNIX

An interactive document, based on use cases, containing explanation and examples of the different commands and utilities that can be used to analyze common problems encountered when running applications in Solaris, HP and AIX systems. A comprehensive table provides information about equivalent commands across these three platforms.

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Customer Services Demos

Automatic Activation

This demo shows the full capabilities of automatically launched servers. It shows that resources only need to loaded on demand. The server itself is only started on the first client invocation. It also demonstrates the on-demand creation of servants using a Servant Manager. Using this technique reduces the start-up time of the server.

Download for Windows NT/2000 Unzip into %IT_PRODUCT_DIR%\asp\MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION\demos\corba\standard
Download for UNIX Untar in $IT_PRODUCT_DIR/asp/MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION/demos/corba/standard

ORB Timeout Policies

This demo shows how a client can limit the time an invocation can take. In particular, it shows how to add an absolute or relative timeout to an ORB and demonstrates a successful invocation and an unsuccessful invocation in both cases.

Download for Windows NT/2000 Unzip into %IT_PRODUCT_DIR%\asp\MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION\demos\corba\standard
Download for UNIX Untar in $IT_PRODUCT_DIR/asp/MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION/demos/corba/standard

Servant Per Client

This demo shows how a server can create one servant per client. This means that you can create session information or other client particular data and keep it separate for individual clients.

Download for Windows NT/2000 Unzip into %IT_PRODUCT_DIR%\asp\MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION\demos\corba\standard

Adapter Activator

This demo demonstrates the use of an Adapter Activator. This is a rarely used facility which enables new Portable Object Adapters (POAs) to be created on demand, that is, on invocation from a client.

Download for Windows NT/2000 Unzip into %IT_PRODUCT_DIR%\asp\MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION\demos\corba\standard

Work Queues

Work queues come in two flavors, manual and automatic. The manual queues can be used to create your own queue and threading model. The automatic queues can be used to create queues with specific threading and queueing values but using the IONA algorithm for request handling. The demo shows both types of work queues.

Download for Windows NT/2000 Unzip into %IT_PRODUCT_DIR%\asp\MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION\demos\corba\standard