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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 2004

04 Jan 2004: JacORB 2.0

After a long period of beta releases and testing, the JacORB team is pleased to announce the New Year's final release of JacORB 2.0. This is a stable release that contains many bug fixes, enhancements, performance improvements, etc.
[ see http://www.jacorb.org ]

13 Jan 2004: TAO 1.4

A notable new feature in this release is the first official version of the Component Integrated ACE ORB (CIAO), which is an implementation of the CORBA Component Model (CCM).
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html ]

15 Feb 2004: JacORB 2.1

JacORB 2.1 adds the ORB PolicyManager and contains a number of important bug fixes (e.g., memory leaks and connection management bugs).
[ see http://www.jacorb.org ]

01 Apr 2004: TAO 1.4.1

This is a bug fix only release to provide a more stable base for TAO users.
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html ]

13 Apr 2004: CORBA Utilities 2.1

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.
[ see http://www.iona.com/devcenter/corba/utilities.htm ]

06 May 2004: JacORB 2.2

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.
[ see http://www.jacorb.org ]

29 Jul 2004: omniORB 4.0.4

This is a minor update consisting of bug fixes and small new features.
[ see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net ]

30 Jul 2004: TAO 1.4.2

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.
[ see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html ]

21 Nov 2004: Ice 2.0

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.
[ see http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html ]

16 Dec 2004: Combat/Tcp 0.7.5

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.
[ see http://www.fpx.de/Combat/ ]

30 Dec 2004: TAO 1.4.3

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
[ see http://deuce.doc.wustl.edu/Download.html ]