READ ME FIRST!
This is omniORB 4.2.3
omniORB is copyright Apasphere Ltd, AT&T Laboratories Cambridge and others. It is free software. The programs in omniORB are distributed under the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the file COPYING for copying permission of these programs. The libraries in omniORB are distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence. See the file COPYING.LIB for copying permission of these libraries.
We impose no restriction on the use of the IDL compiler output. The stub code produced by the IDL compiler is not considered a derived work of it.
README.win32.txt - contains important information on building and using omniORB on Windows NT and Windows 95.
README.unix.txt - contains important information on building and using omniORB on Unix / Linux platforms, including cross-compilation
Other readmes live the the readmes/ subdirectory. See if there is one for your platform.
omniORB is an Object Request Broker (ORB) which implements specification 2.6 of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).
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C++ and Python language bindings.
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Full support for the Portable Object Adapter (POA)
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Support for the Interoperable Naming Service (INS)
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Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP 1.2) is used as the native protocol.
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The omniORB 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.
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TypeCode and type Any are supported.
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DynAny is supported.
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The Dynamic Invocation and Dynamic Skeleton interfaces are supported.
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Valuetype and abstract interfaces are supported.
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Asynchronous Method Invocation (AMI) supported, including both the polling and callback models.
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A COS Naming Service, omniNames, is provided.
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Many platforms are supported, including most Unix platforms and Windows.
It should be straightforward to port omniORB to any platform which supports POSIX style threads, BSD style sockets and has a decent C++ compiler which supports thread-safe exceptions. See readmes/PORTING for more information.
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It has been successfully tested for interoperability via IIOP with other ORBs.
The following features are missing from omniORB. We are not currently planning on adding support for these features.
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omniORB does not have its own Interface Repository. However, the omniifr project aims to create one. See
Installation instructions are provided in the following files:
- README.unix.txt for all Unix / Linux platforms
- README.win32.txt for Windows, both 32 and 64 bit.
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omniORB user guides are located in the ./doc directory. They are available in PDF and HTML formats, as well as LaTeX source.
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README files are provided throughout the distribution tree. They provide specific information about the directories and files, tools and examples. You may want to explore the tree to become familiar with the information provided in the README files.
- Example programs that demonstrate the use of omniORB are located in ./src/examples.
omniORB is based on several OMG specifications. They may be downloaded from
http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/corba_spec_catalog.htm
If you have any queries, suggestions and problems in using omniORB, the best place to ask is on the omniORB mailing list. See here for subscription details and archives:
http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/list.html
Commercial support is available for omniORB. For details, see
http://www.omniorb-support.com/
For general queries and discussion about CORBA, try the newsgroup comp.object.corba.