There is a situation where POA Ties fail with OBJ_ADAPTER exception during ORB.shutdown() when no POA is used as in standard RMI-IIOP programming.

We see the following exception when we call orb.shutdown(false);

org.omg.CORBA.OBJ_ADAPTER: NoContext: outside of an invocation context.
minor code: 0 completed: No
        at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.POA.DelegateImpl.poa(DelegateImpl.java:73)
        at org.omg.PortableServer.Servant._poa(Servant.java:102)
        at hello._HelloHomeImpl_Tie.deactivate(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.javax.rmi.CORBA.Util.cleanUpTie(Util.java:329)
        at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.javax.rmi.CORBA.Util.unexportObject(Util.java:300)
        at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.javax.rmi.CORBA.Util.unregisterTargetsForORB(Util.java:321)
        at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.iiop.JavaxRmiCorbaUtil.unregisterTargetsForORB(JavaxRmiCorbaUtil.java:25)
        at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.iiop.ORB.shutdown(ORB.java:331)
        at com.sun.corba.ee.internal.POA.POAORB.shutdown(POAORB.java:565)
        at com.sun.enterprise.server.EJBServer.shutdown(EJBServer.java:523)