http://cmeerw.org/freeorbwatch/news.html News and announcements from free CORBA implementations. en-us Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:59:59 GMT cmeerw@web.de http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html ZeroC, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the Internet Communications Engine (Ice), version 3.0.0. The most significant change since version 2.1.2 is the addition of IceGrid, a replacement for the IcePack activation service that revolutionizes the way you build and deploy your Ice applications. With support for replication, load balancing, and application distribution, IceGrid provides the tools you need to create scalable grid applications and manage them remotely. http://www.orbzone.org A few days ago The OrbZone, a CORBA community portal (sponsored by IONA Technologies) has been launched. http://www.omnievents.org This release brings major improvements to libomniEvents - the shared library version of omniEvents. There is a new example program (channel.cc) that illustrates how to use libomniEvents to build an EventChannel inside your own program. http://www.mico.org First release candidate of MICO 2.3.12 is available for testing. http://openorb.sourceforge.net After nearly 8 months of testing and bug-fixing, the OpenORB community is proud to release the second beta of "The Community OpenORB" product suite version 1.4. http://www.jacorb.org The new 2.2.2 release is a bug fix release only and does not add new functionality. http://omniorb.sourceforge.net These are mainly bugfix releases, with small new features. http://omniorb.sourceforge.net After a very long time of slow development, the omniORB 4.1 branch is finally in a state that it's stable and usable. What's new: Complete support for objects by value (apart from custom valuetypes); Abstract interfaces support; New simpler and more efficient C++ Any implementation; valuetypes and abstract interfaces inside Anys and DynAnys; New SocketCollection implementation that uses poll() where available. http://deuce.doc.wustl.edu/Download.html This release corrects several bugs, adds many new features, and offers new or improved build support on a few new platforms: New pluggable protocol for GIOP over HTBP, known as HTIOP; Fixed memory leak in CDR encapsulation Codec's encode_value() method; Improved compatibility with JDK orb; Naming Service implementation memory leak fixes; Notification Service EventReliability and ConnectionReliability QoS http://www.fpx.de/Combat/ Combat implements a CORBA language mapping for the Tcl language. The Combat/Tcl version of Combat is written entirely in Tcl itself, and does not have any dependencies on compiled code. The one added feature in the latest version of Combat/Tcl is the support for the new CORBA Reflection specification, which was recently adopted by the OMG. http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html ZeroC, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of the Internet Communications Engine (Ice), version 2.0. Changes in Ice since version 1.5.1 include: new language mappings for Visual Basic .NET and Python 2.3; a new lightweight firewall solution called Glacier2; a new streaming API; support for dynamic invocation and dispatch. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html A notable new feature in this release is the first beta version of the DAnCE (Deployment And Configuration Engine) for Component Integrated ACE ORB (CIAO), which is an implementation of the new Deployment and Configuration spec from the OMG. http://omniorb.sourceforge.net This is a minor update consisting of bug fixes and small new features. http://www.jacorb.org This release adds flexible ORB configuration, so that you can now have multiple ORBs in one process with different configurations. The new release also improvesperformance and scalability, provides more consistent and fine-grained logging, and fixes a number of restrictions. http://www.iona.com/devcenter/corba/utilities.htm A collection of useful C++ and Java classes that simplify the development and deployment of CORBA applications. The utilities are known to work with the following CORBA implementations: Orbix, ORBacus, TAO and omniORB.