Created attachment 1318 [details]
C++ TAO client and Java JacORB server

(1) A TAO 1.8 client connects to JacORB 2.3.1 server via a nameservice.
(2) The JacORB server triggers a callback with an Any type argument. Into this Any type is inserted a valuetype which has a member that is a sequence of another valuetype with a length of more than one, i.e. an IDL like the following:

module simple_def 
{	
	valuetype simpleObject 
        {
            public string string1;
	};

        typedef sequence<simpleObject> simpleObjects;

    	valuetype seqObject
        {
            public string string2;
            public simpleObjects seq; 
        };
};


(3) The TAO client fails to marshal the Any with a debug error message "TAO_Marshal_String::skip detected error"
(4) If the previous steps are repeated with the sequence member having a length of one or zero then the error does not occur.

Please find attached the source code for a relatively simple C++ client and Java server that was used to reproduce this problem.