omniORB

omniORB is an Object Request Broker (ORB) which implements version 2.6 of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).

omniORB project supports the C++ and Python language bindings, is fully multithreaded, uses IIOP as the native transport, and comes complete with a COS Naming Service. omniORB is one of the fastest available C++ ORBs.

Features:

• C++ and Python language bindings.
• Adheres to the CORBA 2.6 specification.
• Support for GIOP and IIOP 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.
• Fully multithreaded runtime.
• TypeCode and type Any.
• CORBA 2.6 DynAny interfaces.
• Dynamic Invocation and Dynamic Skeleton interfaces.
• Complete Naming Service, omniNames.
• Support for wchar, wstring and code set negotiation.
• Full long long, long double, fixed point support.
• PortableServer::Current.
• Unix domain socket transport.
• Bidirectional GIOP.
• Interoperable Secure Socket Layer transport.
• Flexible thread management.
• Interceptors.
• The following platforms are supported (although some have only been tested with earlier releases):
• Windows NT / XP / 9x with Visual C++ version 5.0 and above
• Linux / EGCS 2.91 or GCC 2.95 and above
• Solaris 2.{5,6,7,8} / Sun C++ version 4.2 and above, or GCC 2.95 and above
• HPUX 11.00/ aC++
• SGI Irix 6.x/ SGI C++ compiler 7.2
• Digital Unix 4.0D/ DEC C++ compiler version 6.0
• IBM AIX 4.2/ IBM C Set++ 3.1.4 and xlC 5.0 (Visual Age C++ 5.0)
• IBM AIX 4.3/ IBM C Set++ 3.6.6 and xlC 5.0 (Visual Age C++ 5.0)
• HPUX 10.20/ aC++ (B3910 A.01.04)
• OpenVMS Alpha 6.2/ DEC C++ compiler 6.2/5.5 (UCX 4.1 ECO 8)
• OpenVMS Vax 6.1/ DEC C++ compiler 5.5 (UCX 4.0 ECO 1)
• NextStep 3.3/ gcc-2.7.2
• Reliant Unix 5.43/CDS++
• Phar Lap's Real Time ETS Kernel
• SCO Unixware 7
• Mac OS X
• Fujitsu Siemens BS2000 (with patch in the distribution)
• ...and many others.
• Fully interoperable with other CORBA ORBs.

What is new in this release:

• Bug fixes. See bugfixes-412.xml
• Option to validate UTF-8 string data.
• New omni_mutex trylock method.
• New ISO-8859 and Windows code sets.
• Port to LynxOS.