I hadn't used my Cisco ASDM 5.2 for ASA for a while and when I needed to add a couple of extra users to the VPN it didn't work. Everything seemed to load in ok but when I tried to submit my login credentials it hung. I loaded the Java console and got t… more »

It's all very well to talk to these CORBA objects floating around the network but how do you get your first one; how do you get into the system? The Quantel Broadcast System uses an Interoperable Object Reference (IOR) in a well known location. The IOR… more »

In order to drive the Quantel Broadcast system you need to compile the CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) file into a language of your choice. There are many CORBA IDL compilers out there: JacORB (Java), OmniORB (Python), TOA (C++), IIOP.NET (.NE… more »

Quantel is a company based in Newbury (England) that describes itself as: Quantel develops innovative, world-leading content creation systems for broadcast, post and DI. We are driven by a passion to create the most powerful and efficient tools for the… more »

This was a tricky one to solve! Tricky because the exception doesn't happen at the point of error - it happens down the line at the time you try to commit a transaction. This is one of those error messages you just need to know. Here is the top of the exception's stack trace. Almost all of the rest of the stack trace is inside hibernate and doesn't give you any kind of clue as to the cause. more »