Free ORB Watch

News and announcements from free CORBA implementations.

ICE 3.0 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

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.zeroc.com/ice.html

TAO 1.4.2 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

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://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html

CombatTcp 0.7.5 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Combat implements a CORBA language mapping for the Tcl language. The CombatTcl 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 CombatTcl is the support for the new CORBA Reflection specification, which was recently adopted by the OMG.
http://www.fpx.de/Combat/

TAO 1.4.3 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

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://deuce.doc.wustl.edu/Download.html

omniORB 4.0.6 and omniORBpy 2.6 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

These are mainly bugfix releases, with small new features.
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net

JacORB 2.2.2 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The new 2.2.2 release is a bug fix release only and does not add new functionality.
http://www.jacorb.org

Community OpenORB 1.4.0 BETA2 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

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://openorb.sourceforge.net

First release candidate of MICO 2.3.12 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

First release candidate of MICO 2.3.12 is available for testing.
http://www.mico.org

omniEvents 2.6.2 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

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.omnievents.org

The OrbZone - (Found July 2, 2008 )

A few days ago The OrbZone, a CORBA community portal (sponsored by IONA Technologies) has been launched.
http://www.orbzone.org