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This page contains some news and announcements from free CORBA-implementations. The announcements aren't written by me, I just try to collect relevant information here. Please note that this page is also available as a Rich Site Summary channel, a My Sidebar, and as a WAP-page at http://cmeerw.org/freeorbwatch/wap/

News Archive for 2001

17 Jan 2001: OpenCCM 0.1

OpenCCM stands for the Open CORBA Component Model Platform: the first public available Open Source implementation of the Object Management Group's CORBA Component Model.
[ see http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/OpenCCM/ ]

01 Feb 2001: IONA Acquires OOC

The good news: ORBacus will continue to be available with full source code and will remain free for non-commercial use.
[ see http://www.ooc.com/press/20010202.html ]

04 Feb 2001: OpenORB available

The ExoLab Group, the sponsor of open source projects for the enterprise, announced today the initial release and immediate availability of the OpenORB Enterprise Suite. The OpenORB Enterprise Suite is a Java implementation of the latest CORBA specifications.
[ see http://openorb.exolab.org ]

08 Feb 2001: JacORB 1.3

In addition to fixing a number of bugs, it introduces the Interface Repository and a graphical browser (IRBrowser).
[ see http://jacorb.inf.fu-berlin.de ]

21 Feb 2001: omniORB 3.0.3

This is a minor upgrade, consisting mainly of bug fixes.
[ see http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/ ]

21 Feb 2001: omniORBpy 1.3

This is a minor upgrade, consisting mainly of bug fixes.
[ see http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/ ]

22 Feb 2001: Interface Repository for omniORB

This is the first public release of omniifr, which includes the omniifr server program and an omniidl backend for feeding IDL files into the server.
[ see http://www.factoriaX.com/projects/omniifr/ ]

26 Feb 2001: ORBacus 4.0.5

Aside from bug fixes, one important item to note is that ORBacus Trader is now a separate package.
[ see http://www.orbacus.com ]

05 Mar 2001: OpenCCM 0.2

OpenCCM is the first public available Open Source implementation of the Object Management Group's CORBA Component Model.
[ see http://corbaweb.lifl.fr/OpenCCM/index.html ]

06 Mar 2001: SOAP to CORBA Bridge

There already is a working prototype entirely written in C++. It is implemented by using the CORBA Interface repository to match the incoming SOAP request to the corresponding CORBA service, build the dynamic invocation of the CORBA service and to generate the SOAP response or possibly SOAP fault, the latter in the case of a CORBA user exception for instance.
[ see http://www.lifeline.nl/development/SoapBridge/ ]

08 Mar 2001: OpenORB Enterprise Suite 1.0.1

OpenORB Enterprise Suite is the ultimate solution for distributed and professional Java applications developed with CORBA. OpenORB Enterprise Suite includes an ORB designed for large scalability, compliance, interoperability, performance and easy deployment.
[ see http://www.openorb.org ]

11 Mar 2001: CORBA Open-Source Testing

A project, known as the CORBA Open-Source Testing project, has just started. This project has the blessing and support of the OMG and the participation of the following ORB vendors: AT&T (omniORB); Borland (Visibroker); Iona Technologies (Orbix); Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) (TAO); Object Oriented Concepts (OOC) (ORBacus).
[ see http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/archives/2001-03/0057.html ]

11 Mar 2001: omniORB 4 feature list

GIOP 1.2 and 1.2; more flexible transports (SSL, unix domain); Interceptors; wchar, wstring; fixed point and long double; Current interface; fault-tolerance client support; Firewall proxy support; AMI; maybe Object by Value.
[ see http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/archives/2001-03/0053.html ]

26 Mar 2001: JacORB 1.3.20

There are no (or only very minor) functionally new features, the main improvements are bug fixes in the IDL compiler, Any marshalling, and wchar/wstring support.
[ see http://jacorb.inf.fu-berlin.de ]

05 Apr 2001: Monitoring Version 1.1

Monitoring is a framework that offers a systematic approach towards observation of communication behaviour in distributed CORBA-based software to reduce the non-determinism stemming from the heterogeneity and complexity of distributed systems.
[ see http://cvsarch.cs.utwente.nl/monitoring/ ]

02 May 2001: ORBacus/E 1.1.0

ORBacus/E 1.1.0 marks the introduction of ORBacus/E for Java. This release also includes: new embedded versions of the Naming, Event and Property services, support for local interfaces, initial release of the ORBacus/E manual, performance enhancements.
[ see http://www.ooc.com/obe/ ]

07 May 2001: OpenORB 1.1.0

OpenORB Enterprise Suite now includes a powerful and fully compliant Notification Service. A new configuration system: easier and really powerful. The configuration files and the IDL files are now embedded in the Jar files.
[ see http://www.openorb.org ]

11 May 2001: MICO CORBA Component Project

The MicoCCM project aims at providing a reference implementation of the CORBA Component Model, based on the Open Source ORB Mico. The CORBA Component Model (CCM) is a major new part of the upcoming CORBA 3.0 standard. The CCM specification is currently in finalization at the Object Management Group.
[ see http://www.fpx.de/MicoCCM/ ]

12 May 2001: ORBit 0.5.8

New bugfix release...
[ see http://orbit-resource.sourceforge.net/ ]

07 Jun 2001: ORBacus 4.1.0 Beta 1

What's new in OB 4.1.0: Threading changes, Dynamic Loading, Load Balancing Service, Watson, OCI Enhancements, UDP Plug-in, Performance, Policy Changes, Local Interfaces.
[ see http://www.orbacus.com/ob/download4_beta.html ]

12 Jun 2001: JacORB 1.3.30

There are only minor new features (we now support DNS names in IORs, e.g.), the main improvements are bug fixes, e.g., in the IDL compiler (which is a little stricter now).
[ see http://jacorb.inf.fu-berlin.de ]

13 Jun 2001: OCI supports JacORB

OCI announced today that it has commenced providing support for the open source Java ORB known as JacORB. This highly rated object request broker (ORB) has been developed over the last few years to meet the challenging needs of the Java market for a CORBA compliant middleware product.
[ see http://jacorb.inf.fu-berlin.de/OCI-Pressrelease.html ]

14 Jun 2001: 1st Workshop on The ACE ORB (TAO)

Sunday and Monday, August 5th and 6th, 2001: The TAO workshop will bring together the research, engineering, and business segments of the TAO community for an open discussion on interesting research and product development being done with TAO, where the primary needs of the community lie, and what the future plans are for TAO and its developer, user, and support bases. The workshop will include an overview of the internals of the TAO ORB by the developers who are actively involved in the project.
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~doc/TAO-workshop.html ]

17 Jun 2001: omniORB 4.0 Preview

A lot of changes have been done under the bonnet. This includes a rewrite of the GIOP implementation, new thread management, new transport abstraction, etc. When 4.0 is finished, hopefully we will be able to address most, if not all, of your concerns.
[ see http://www.uk.research.att.com/cgi-bin/omni-wiki/moin.cgi/OmniOrb4DevelopmentStatus ]

21 Jun 2001: omniORB 3.0.4 and omniORBpy 1.4

They are mainly bugfix releases, but they also include new support for Darwin / Mac OS 10 and a few other features.
[ see http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/omniORB.html ]

21 Jun 2001: omniORBpy 2 preview

omniORBpy 2 supports all the new features of omniORB 4, plus a few new things specific to Python.
[ see http://www.uk.research.att.com/cgi-bin/omni-wiki/moin.cgi/OmniOrbPy2DevelopmentStatus ]

14 Aug 2001: OpenORB 1.2

The ExoLab Group announced today the immediate availability of OpenORB Enterprise Suite 1.2. A complete CORBA 2.4 ORB, version 1.2 offers considerable improvements in terms of performance, scalability, and interoperability.
[ see http://www.openorb.org ]

20 Aug 2001: ORBit-Python 0.3.0

0.3.0 brings a lot of additions over the previous release: much improved compliance with the Python mapping specification, CORBA exceptions overhaul, object references implemented as class instances, ...
[ see http://orbit-python.sault.org/ ]

23 Aug 2001: ORBit2 2.3.94

method strace like feature, more regression tests & fixes, typelib-dump utility to list and dump, locking re-write to use new linc code, ...
[ see http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/ORBit2/ ]

26 Sep 2001: ORBacus 4.1

It now includes JThreads/C++ 2.0. The ORB supports a generic facility for dynamically loadable modules. The Load Balancing Service distributes client requests among a group of replicated object groups. The new UDP Plug-in supports unreliable oneway operations via unicast and multicast. Thread usage has been reduced by 50%. There is now only one thread per connection, rather than two.
[ see http://www.orbacus.com ]

27 Sep 2001: MICO 2.3.6

For the most part, this is a bugfix release. The major news are: better protection against illegal GIOP input data; a memory leak has been plugged; ported to the PocketPC; better interoperability with JDK's ORB; new debugging subsystem.
[ see http://www.mico.org ]

04 Oct 2001: TAO 1.2

TAO 1.2 includes the following features: real-time CORBA 1.0; smart proxies; asynchronous method invocation (AMI); pluggable protocols for SSL, shared memory, UDP and Unix-domain sockets; security level 1; CORBA 2.4 compliant.
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html ]

15 Nov 2001: JacORB 1.4 Beta 1

JacORB 1.4 adds support for GIOP 1.2 and Bidirectional GIOP as well as OBV. Additionally, a large number of bugs have been fixed.
[ see http://jacorb.inf.fu-berlin.de ]