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I guess the basic functionality for the client-side is achieved and I can, finally, move to the server-side implementation, mapping the MICO Servant(and other classes) to PHP.
I'm not having too much time right now but I'll do my best.
Just for the records, It's an one man only work, so don't expect it to be completed very soon...

Got interoperability with IDL::Fixed between JacORB and CORBA4PHP(MICO).
The compiled JacORB violates the OMG IIOP protocol specification. To get an OMG IIOP compliant JacORB you will need to recompile JacORB with the included OMG compliant specification.
With this new compliant JacORB, you can get a Java BigDecimal object mapped to a PHP BigDecimal object and "vice versa".

This monograph is available only in brazilian portuguese for now. An english version will come. It explains the development of the IDL compiler, the phpORB extension and the IDL-to-PHP language mapping specification. It's based on an old CVS version of PHP5 (November/2003), so thinks may have changed a bit.

This is the first release of the IDL-to-PHP language mapping specification. It has the OMG formal document format for future submission to OMG approval.