Beginning with the JDK 1.3.1_01 patch, we support a PutField/GetField implementation that maintains wire compatibility with older versions of classes which didn't use this serialization feature.

Part of the patch rev'd its ORB version service context to use the value of 3 to indicate its version. It also appended a version byte to the end of its IORs. We now need to rev Merlin's ORB version service context to something like 10 (it was 3 previously) so we can tell the difference.

Also, we can now forward port the backwards compatibility/ORB versioning from the JDK 1.3.1_01 patch such that even JDK 1.4 and behind can communicate with JDK 1.3.0 and 1.3.1FCS when both sides use this feature.

See the attached test case for a PutField/GetField example. It should be run with all combinations of JDK 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.1_01, and 1.4.