Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:30:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: omniORB port to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199705121830.LAA11719@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 May 1997 10:48:06 PDT." <199705121748.KAA14166@conceptual.com>
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Cool, I am interested and we do need someone to keep track of such
things as ACE, ILU, and now omniORB 8)
Cheers,
Amancio
>From The Desk Of "Russell L. Carter" :
>
> Any orbaholics interested in working with me to
> port omniORB to FreeBSD pthreads please drop me a line. The C++
> binding is very attractive. ILU works fine of course but
> the C++ binding is too flaky to use right now.
>
> Having both working ACE and a C++ ORB is cool indeed...
>
> Russell
>
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> Subject: FYI: Free CORBA 2 ORB for C++ available now
> From: Sai-Lai Lo <S.Lo@orl.co.uk>
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******* Free CORBA 2 ORB for C++ available now *******
>
>
> The Olivetti and Oracle Research Laboratory has made available the first
> public release of omniORB (version 2.2.0). We also refer to this version
> as omniORB2.
>
> omniORB2 is copyright Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory. It is free
> software. The programs in omniORB2 are distributed under the GNU General
> Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation. The libraries
> in omniORB2 are distributed under the GNU Library General Public
> Licence.
>
> Source code and binary distributions are available from our Web pages:
>
> http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html
>
>
> Technical Highlights
> ====================
>
> omniORB2 implements specification 2.0 of the Common Object Request
> Broker Architecture (CORBA).
>
> - C++ language bindings are supported. The mapping conforms to
> the latest revision of the CORBA specification.
>
> - The Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) is used as the native protocol.
>
> - The omniORB2 runtime is fully multithreaded. It uses native platform
> thread support encapsulated with a small class library, omnithread,
> to abstract away from differences in native thread APIs.
>
> - A COS Naming Service, omniNames, is provided.
>
> - The following platforms are supported:
>
> o Solaris 2.5 / Sun SparcCompiler C++ version 4.2
> o Digital Unix 3.2 / DEC C++ compiler version 5.5
> o x86 Linux 2.0 / GNU C++ compiler version 2.7.2 / Linuxthreads 0.5
> o x86 Windows NT / Windows 95 / Visual C++ version 4.2
>
> It should be straightforward to port omniORB2 to any platform
> which supports POSIX style threads, BSD style sockets and has a
> decent C++ compiler which supports exceptions.
>
> - It has been tested for interoperability via IIOP with other ORBs,
> such as Iona Orbix 2.1 MT, Iona OrbixWeb 2.0.1,
> Visigenic Visibroker for C++, and HP ORB Plus 2.5.
>
> Work in progress
> ================
>
> omniORB2 is not yet a complete implementation of the CORBA core. The
> following features are not supported in the current release.
> Support for these features will be included shortly in
> a future release of omniORB2.
>
> - `Typecode' and the type `Any' are not supported.
>
> - The Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII) is not supported.
>
> - The Dynamic Skeleton Interface (DSI) is not supported.
>
>
> Missing features
> ================
>
> The following features are missing from omniORB2. We are not
> currently planning on adding support for these features.
>
> - The BOA only supports the persistent server activation policy. Other
> dynamic activation and deactivation polices are not supported.
>
> - omniORB2 does not has its own Interface Repository.
>
>
>
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