   Hi all,  To anyone who is interested in CORBA you may want to
know what I've been spending my summer doing.  I was given the
task of somehow to make an LDAP to PIDS gateway.  The University
of Michigan Hospital (where I work) holds its patient's records
on Oracle databases which are easily access through a PIDS
service (Personal Identification Service).  PIDS is made through
CORBA.  Since everyone has an LDAP client and no one has a PIDS
client they thought that this would be a good idea.  I was
working on the LDAP half of the project and a collegue was
working on the CORBA portion.  Basically our plan was to
sidestep the database completely in the SLAPD server.  The LDAP
server would answer client calls, transform the Filter into
something that PIDS could read, send it to a PIDS client which
connected to a PIDS server, which gets the data and translates
the results into LDIF which SLAPD uses to send to str2entry to
send back to the client.  I basically wrote a new backend search
function, and kept the oth