title: CORBA: what is it and why does it create "error in GIOP magic"?
body: <p>I'm seeing an CORBA <code>error in GIOP magic</code> in my GlassFish 3.1.2 server log, which leads to severe errors later. As this isn't coming from my web app code, it must be from the environment(?). </p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help shed some light on what CORBA is, how this generic error gets generated, and how to troubleshoot?</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>[#|2014-11-08T14:14:52.296-0800|WARNING|glassfish3.1.2|javax.enterprise.resource.corba.ORBUtil|_ThreadID=646;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|IOP00710020:
    Error in GIOP magic org.omg.CORBA.INTERNAL: WARNING: IOP00710020:
    Error in GIOP magic  vmcid: OMG  minor code: 20 completed: Maybe  at
    sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
      at ...</p>
  </blockquote>