FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.4.0_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0_01-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0_01-b03, mixed mode)

and also

java version "1.4.1-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-beta-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1-beta-b14, mixed mode)


FULL OPERATING SYSTEM VERSION :

Linux fnsnb24 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 i686 unknown
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)

Windows 2000                              


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Inserting a org.omg.TimeBase.TimeT  customer  into a CORBA-any
fails by throwing a nullpointer exception:
        Exception in thread "main"
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
com.sun.corba.se.internal.corba.TCUtility.unmarshalIn(TCUtility.java:290)
        at
com.sun.corba.se.internal.corba.AnyImpl.read_value(AnyImpl.java:561)
        at
org.omg.TimeBase.TimeTHelper.insert(TimeTHelper.java:20)
        at CorbaBug.main(CorbaBug.java:13)



STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :

1. From CorbaBug.java copy the TimeBase idl into a file name timebase.idl (lines starting with '#ifndef _TIME_BASE_IDL' and up to '#endif'      (create timebase idl) 

2. idjl -pkgPrefix TimeBase  org.omg timebase.idl    (compile the timebase idl) 

3. java CorbaBug  (run the test) 


This bug can be reproduced always.



The problem is not reproducible on Windows 2000 using JDK1.3.1_04.

Here is the output I got.
-------------------------

Any:   xxxxx@xxxxx  


---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
public class CorbaBug {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String[] orb_args = new String[] { "-ORBInitialHost", "fnsnb24",
"-ORBInitialPort", "2809" };
        org.omg.CORBA.ORB orb = org.omg.CORBA.ORB.init(orb_args, null);
        org.omg.CORBA.Any any = orb.create_any();
        System.out.println("Any: " + any);
        org.omg.TimeBase.TimeTHelper.insert(any, 500L); // -> This throws an
exception as shown below
        System.exit(0);
    }

    /** Output is:
        Any:   xxxxx@xxxxx  
        Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
com.sun.corba.se.internal.corba.TCUtility.unmarshalIn(TCUtility.java:290)
        at com.sun.corba.se.internal.corba.AnyImpl.read_value(AnyImpl.java:561)
        at org.omg.TimeBase.TimeTHelper.insert(TimeTHelper.java:20)
        at CorbaBug.main(CorbaBug.java:13)

        ------------------------------------------------------
        jdk is: j2sdk1.4.0_01
        java version "1.4.0_01"
        Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0_01-b03)
        Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0_01-b03, mixed mode)
     */
}



/** The used omg idl is (we don't use the NOLONGLONG options, so TimeT is a
single long long type):

#ifndef _TIME_BASE_IDL_
#define _TIME_BASE_IDL_
#pragma prefix "omg.org"

module TimeBase {

#ifdef NOLONGLONG
    struct ulonglong{
        unsigned long       low;
        unsigned long       high;
    };
    typedef ulonglong       TimeT;
#else
    typedef unsigned long long  TimeT;
#endif
    
    typedef TimeT           InaccuracyT;
    typedef short           TdfT;
    struct UtcT {
        TimeT           time;       // 8 octets
        unsigned long   inacclo;    // 4 octets
        unsigned short  inacchi;    // 2 octets
        TdfT            tdf;        // 2 octets
                                    // total 16 octets.
    };

    struct IntervalT {
        TimeT           lower_bound;
        TimeT           upper_bound;
    };
};
#endif

*/



---------- END SOURCE ----------

Release Regression From : 1.3.1_04
The above release value was the last known release where this 
bug was known to work. Since then there has been a regression.

(Review ID: 153463) 
======================================================================

N/A

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-07-11

This seems to be a bug.

The problem seems to be in 
com.sun.corba.se.internal.corba.AnyImpl, in the read_value
(InputStream in, TypeCode tc) method:

The call to unmarshalIn passes the variable typeCode, rather 
than realType():

public void read_value(org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream 
in, TypeCode tc)
{
    typeCode = TypeCodeImpl.convertToNative(orb, tc);
    int kind = realType().kind().value();
    ...
    if (AnyImpl.isStreamed[kind]) {
    ...
    }else {
    ...
    TCUtility.unmarshalIn(in, typeCode, longholder, objholder);
    ...
    }
    ...
}

Changing the last line in the code snippet above as follows 
seems to resolve the problem:

    TCUtility.unmarshalIn(in, realType(), longholder, objholder);