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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 2002

04 Jan 2002: MICO/MT 2.3.6

This is mainly stabilisation release thought it brings some new features: MICO 2.3.6 source tree merged, implemented two concurrency models: thread pool and thread per connection, fixed oneway invocation, several fixes in IIOP/GIOP/Connection management, fixed POA for usage with servant manager.
[ see http://micomt.sourceforge.net ]

10 Jan 2002: OpenORB Community Project

There have been discussions concerning the management of the OpenORB project, the absence of open policies, procedures and management framework, an issues that touch on the suitability of the Exolab site as an appropriate hosting environment. As the discussion on these matters proceed, there are some more pragmatic actions going forward concerning the establishment of a new contingency site - the OpenORB Community Project.
[ see http://openorb.exolab.org/list-archive-dev/msg02143.html ]

23 Jan 2002: New MicoCCM Snaphot

Apart from the usual updates and bugfixes, the major new feature are loadable components. You can now compile components into a shared library and deploy them into a "Container Server". A "MicoCCM Daemon" is included that manages these Container Servers and activates/destroys them on request.
[ see http://www.fpx.de/MicoCCM/ ]

25 Jan 2002: ORBacus no longer free for non-commercial use?

About a year after IONA has acquired OOC, there is now some confusion about the availability of ORBacus for non-commercial use free of charge. Neil Kenealy, Senior Product Manager, explained the reasons for the move on the ORBacus mailing list. Unfortunately, this new definition of "non-commercial use" means for me that I will no longer include ORBacus in my Free-ORB Watch pages.
[ see http://www.orbacus.com/pipermail/ob-users/2002-January/020884.html ]

16 Feb 2002: ACE 5.2.2 + TAO 1.2.2 beta released

Changes to TAO: Multicast InterORB Protocol (MIOP) supported; first version of Asynchronous Message Handling (AMH) is available; changes to the POA to support Object Reference Template; IDL compiler support for forward declaration of IDL structs and unions; preliminary support for CORBA Components
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html ]

28 Feb 2002: TAO 1.2a

TAO 1.2a includes many new features and improvements over the previous commercially supported (TAO 1.1a) release and has been extensively tested across a wide variety of platforms.
[ see http://www.theaceorb.com ]

17 Mar 2002: MICO 2.3.7

This is a bugfix release, a lot of problems have been fixed.
[ see http://www.mico.org ]

22 Mar 2002: JacORB 1.4 Beta 4

This is a bugfix release, that adresses the fact that corbalocs where broken in beta 3. Beta 3 was a bugfix release that also contained a few new features like the possibility to use corbaloc together with ssl.
[ see http://jacorb.inf.fu-berlin.de ]

01 Apr 2002: omniORB 4 beta 1

Last Friday's CVS snapshots of omniORB 4 and omniORBpy 2 should be considered beta versions. There are still a few rough edges, but the vast majority of the planned functionality is there. The documentation has not yet been updated for the new and changed features.
[ see http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/ ]

11 Apr 2002: omniORB Plans

AT&T Laboratories Cambridge will close on 24 April. Some time before that, the majority of the www.uk.research.att.com web site, including the omniORB bits, will move to a new home at the LCE, part of Cambridge University. Links to omniORB's web pages will continue to work. The FTP site and the mailing lists will move too..
[ see http://www.omniorb.org ]

12 Apr 2002: XORL.org

In early 2002, AT&T announced that, as part of their global research cuts, they would no longer be funding the Cambridge lab, and it will therefore cease operation on 24 April 2002. Among their projects is also omniORB, an Open Source CORBA implementation.
[ see http://www.xorl.org ]

20 May 2002: What happened to ORBacus?

www.orbacus.com is currently unreachable because of some DNS issues, and www.ooc.nf.ca tells you that "ORBacus products have been incorprated into the IONA product suite". Hmm, and taking a look at the message counts in the mailing list archive makes me wonder a bit: there are only about 100-200 messages posted per month to the mailing list in recent months. Compare this with 600-800 messages per month about a year ago.
[ see http://www.iona.com/products/orbacus_home.htm ]

30 May 2002: JacORB 1.4 delayed

JacORB 1.4 beta has been running pretty stable for a while, and a host of bugs have been fixed and a number of enhancements to JacORB have been added over the past weeks. But a few minor issues have been found during regression testing, so it will take another week before JacORB 1.4 will be released.
[ see http://www.jacorb.org ]

06 Jun 2002: JacORB 1.4

Freie Universität Berlin and XTRADYNE Technologies are pleased to announce general availability of JacORB 1.4. What's new in 1.4 GA (since beta 4): extended OBV support, improved Implementation Repository fail-over, includes Appligator, closer alignment to newer IDL/Java RTF, many bug fixes, enhancements and quality improvements.
[ see http://www.jacorb.org ]

06 Jun 2002: Exolab Changes

As we continue a strategy focused on delivering Business Process Management products, we can no longer support all the open source projects with our limited resources. In the best interest of the open source community we would like to announce the following changes: OpenORB: We support the project on Sourceforge and recommend any contributors to contribute to this project.
[ see http://openorb.sourceforge.net/ ]

11 Jun 2002: omniORB 3.0.5 / omniORBpy 1.5

The releases are minor updates to the previous versions, containing bug fixes and ports to new platforms, but no significant new features.
[ see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net ]

11 Jun 2002: JacORB 1.4 unstable

What first appeared to be a minor backward compatibility problem WRT IORs has proved to be a major problem. In order not to have more people waste their time, JacORB 1.4.0 ("GA") has been made unavailable and "beta 4" is recommended to be used instead. A maintenance release will hopefully be released soon.
[ see http://www.jacorb.org ]

19 Jun 2002: OpenORB 1.3.0 BETA1

After nearly 6 months of steady improvements to the Intalio/Exolab code base, the OpenORB community is proud to release the first beta of the next version of "The Community OpenORB" product suite.
[ see http://openorb.sourceforge.net ]

19 Jun 2002: OpenORB 1.3.0 BETA2

This release follows BETA1 after 2 months of beta testing where important bugs were fixed.
[ see http://openorb.sourceforge.net ]

30 Jul 2002: JacORB 1.4.1

Freie Universitt Berlin and XTRADYNE Technologies are pleased to announce general availability of JacORB 1.4.1, the free Java ORB. What's new: OBV, support for GIOP 1.2, BiDirectional GIOP, numerous improvements and bugfixes.
[ see http://www.jacorb.org ]

01 Aug 2002: Commercial support for omniORB

Duncan Grisby is now offering commercial supporting for omniORB through Apasphere Ltd. Everything in the omniORB distribution, both version 3.0.x and version 4.0.x, is supported. All versions of omniORBpy are supported.
[ see http://www.omniorb-support.com ]

21 Aug 2002: omniORB 4.0.0 beta 2

Highlights of the new features since omniORB 3.0: updated to CORBA 2.6; support for GIOP 1.1 and 1.2; wide string and codeset negotiation; unix domain and SSL transports; bidirectional GIOP; flexible thread pool mode; PortableServer::Current; interceptors.
[ see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net ]

11 Sep 2002: omniORB 4.0.0 release candidate

The release candidate contains minor bug fixes and new features since the beta 2 release.
[ see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net ]

23 Sep 2002: omniORB 4.0.0

Highlights of the new features since omniORB 3.0: updated to CORBA 2.6; support for GIOP 1.1 and 1.2; wide string and codeset negotiation; unix domain and SSL transports; bidirectional GIOP; flexible thread pool mode; PortableServer::Current; interceptors.
[ see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net ]

29 Sep 2002: OpenORB 1.3.0

The major changes over the 1.2.1 release includes: Reduced memory footprint; Improved source code readability; Lots of bug fixes; Enhanced JDK 1.4 support.
[ see http://openorb.sourceforge.net ]

10 Oct 2002: ACE 5.2.5 + TAO 1.2.5 release candidate

Release candidate for ACE 5.3 / TAO 1.3. It attempts to stabilize recent changes to ACE and TAO as much as possible, in addition to addressing various long term problems: Greatly improved CORBA 3.0 support; New Implementation Repository; Pluggable protocol framework cleanup.
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html ]

30 Nov 2002: ACE 5.2.7 + TAO 1.2.7 beta

This beta specifically addresses compile problems that were reported with x.2.6 due to wrong dependencies.
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html ]

25 Dec 2002: ACE+TAO x.2.8

This beta contains fixes for problems that lead to crashes with ACE+TAO.
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html ]