Serialization Interoperability seems to broken in same-JDK, same-platform and cross-JDK, same-platform mode. See http://jse.east/sqe/corba/serial/configs.txt for a discussion on various modes and view the attachment for a more detailed report.

Tests are accessible at /Arung/interop (howru.eng).

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There are problems in BigInteger and StringBuffer between 1.4.0 and 1.3.1. The cases that are currently failing for core classes interop are listed below.

1.4.0 client / 1.3.0 server / StringBuffer / Mismatched serialization UIDs
1.4.0 client / 1.3.0 server / BigInteger

1.4.0 client / 1.3.0_02 server / StringBuffer / Mismatched serialization UIDs
1.4.0 client / 1.3.0_02 server / BigInteger

1.4.0 client / 1.3.1 server / BigInteger

1.3.0 client / 1.4.0 server / StringBuffer
1.3.0 client / 1.4.0 server / BigInteger / IndirectionException
1.3.0_02 client / 1.4.0 server / StringBuffer
1.3.0_02 client / 1.4.0 server / BigInteger / IndirectionException
1.3.1 client / 1.4.0 server / BigInteger / IndirectionException
ripint client / 1.4.0 server / BigInteger / IndirectionException

1.4.0 client / ripint server / BigInteger / org.omg.CORBA.MARSHAL

All these are known failures and acknowledged by Everett.

arun.gupta@Eng 2001-02-06