I have been out of the office a few days and am only now able to respond.
Briefly...
1. The sun-acc.xml file is normally used only when you launch with the appclient command. The settings there are not used - currently - during a Java Web Start launch.
2. Using the build-in Java Web Start support (as it appears you are doing), the server automatically places the address of the server-side ORB into the generated JNLP document that launches the client. This value is obtained from the ORB logic on the server side.
I will let the ORB folks know of this forum post and let's see if they have anything to add.
- Tim
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