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omniORB3 is a GPL'd Object Request Broker (ORB) which implements
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specification 2.3 of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).
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Further information on CORBA can be found at http://www.omg.org/
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> TECHNICAL FEATURES:
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- C++ language bindings are supported. The mapping conforms to the latest
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revision of the CORBA specification.
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- Support for the Portable Object Adapter (POA)
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- Support for the Interoperable Naming Service (INS)
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- The Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP 1.0) is used as the native protocol.
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- The omniORB3 runtime is fully multithreaded. It uses native platform thread
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support encapsulated with a small class library, omnithread, to abstract
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away from differences in native thread APIs.
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- TypeCode and type Any are supported.
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- DynAny is supported (CORBA 2.2)
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- The Dynamic Invocation and Dynamic Skeleton interfaces are supported
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- A COS Naming Service, omniNames, is provided.
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> FEATURES STILL TO BE IMPLEMENTED:
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- Support for IDL type longdouble, wchar, wstring, fixed, valuetype.
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> MISSING FEATURES:
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- omniORB3 does not has its own Interface Repository. However any CORBA
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compliant Interface Repository can be used with omniORB3.
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WWW: http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/
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