Why not change it to 8683 by default then?
--jason
Francisco Reverbel wrote:
>As Adrian pointed out some time ago, the IIOP port in the
>default config in HEAD and branch 3.0 (port 5000) conflicts
>with a Windows XP service ("SSDP Discovery Service", used for
>Universal Plug and Play).
>
>I considered changing the default config and moving IIOP to the
>port officially reserved for IIOP. but this is not a good option.
>The official IIOP port (683) is in the "well-known port range"
>(0--1023), normally unavailable to processes with no special
>privileges. So I requested IANA a port assignment (in the
>"registered port range", which is from 1024 to 49151) for JBoss.
>
>In a couple of weekes we should have our own registered port for
>JBoss/IIOP. Meanwhile, I do not know what to do with the IIOP port.
>The current value is causing problems for Windows XP users.
>Changing it to another "stolen value" is also likely to cause
>problems...
>
>Francisco
>
