ORBit2 is a CORBA 2.4-compliant Object Request Broker (ORB) featuring mature C and Perl bindings. Bindings (in various degrees of completeness) are also available for C++, Lisp, Pascal, Python, Ruby, and TCL; others are in-progress. It supports POA, DII, DSI, TypeCode, Any, IR and IIOP.
Optional features including INS and threading are available. ORBit2 is engineered for the GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME) with a focus on performance, low resource usage, and security.
The core ORB is written in C, and runs under Linux, UNIX (BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, ...), and Windows. ORBit is developed and released as open source software under GPL/LGPL.

ORBit2

• ORBit2 (CVS lxr, CVS Bonsai, FAQ)

• linc: CVS Bonsai, CVS lxr

ORBit1

• ORBit (CVS Bonsai, CVS lxr)
  
  • Solaris 8
  • Digital UNIX
• ORBit Win32
• ORBit HP-UX
• ORBit FreeBSD
• ORBit NetBSD
• ORBit OpenBSD
• ORBit for SGI Irix 6.2 or above

• ORBit Multithreaded
• kORBit: A Kernel Space CORBA ORB (Final Report, CORBA in the kernel)

• libIDL: CVS Bonsai, CVS lxr

ORBit2 Documentation

• ORBit2 beginners documentation

ORBit1 Documentation

• ORBit Hacker Documentation
• CORBA in 5 minutes
• ORBit FAQ
  • CORBA
  • ORBit
  • Help (mailing-list archives from orbit-list at cuc.edu!)

• ORBit1 Examples
  • corba-helper examples (by Matt Loper)
  • Default Servant examples (by Francisco Reverbel)
  • ORBitcpp echo example (by Frank Collas)

ORBit1 Services

ORBit1 Language Mappings

*1 Because there is no formal spec and ORBit is trying to reach CORBA 2.2 conformance I'm assuming CORBA 2.2 alignment here.
*2 The alignment refers to the specification document, not to the implementation.
*3 The C-language mapping covers the POA and is referred to be CORBA 2.1aligned. But the POA was introduced with CORBA 2.2, so it seems that the C-mapping is already CORBA 2.2 conform (?).

ORBit Tools

• Bonobrowser
• ns_gnorba
• GIOR - GNOME IOR dump utility

• Mod_Corba

• Linux IrDA (Infrared-HOWTO on CORBA/ORBit)

CORBA Links

• Object Management Group (OMG) (OMG's catalog of specifications)
  • OMG's CORBA for Beginners
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.0 Specification (August 1996)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.1 Specification (September 1997)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.2 Specification (February 1998)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.3 Specification (December 1998)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.3.1 Specification (June 1999)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.4 Specification (October 2000)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.4.1 Specification (November 2000)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.4.2 Specification (February 2001)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.5 Specification (September 2001)
  • CORBA/IIOP 2.6 Specification, Errata (current version, December 2001)
  • CORBA/IIOP 3.0.2 Specification(current version, December 2002)
    • CORBA Component Model (CCM) Resource Page (by Diego Sevilla Ruiz)

• Cetus CORBA links
• Distributed Object Computing Page
• TU Vienna's Distributed Systems Group: CORBA
• Linux DCE, CORBA and DCOM Guide

• Douglas C. Schmidt's CORBA Resources
• Michi Henning's CORBA Resources
• Steve Vinoski's CORBA Resources
• CORBA Product Profile

• Introduction to CORBA: Part 1, Part 2 (by Mike Olson)
• CORBA Workshop at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

• The Free CORBA page
• Freeorbwatch

CORBA Tools/Projects

• Ethereal - A network protocol analyzer with IIOP/GIOP support. (How to add CORBA GIOP/IIOP decoding capabilities to an open-source protocol analyzer)
• tcpdump/libcap (GIOP/IIOP Patch for tcpdump 3.4a5, 3.4a6)
• CORBATrace

• OpenGROUP's VSORB Test Suite

• ILU IOR parser

• CORBA support for autoconf

• ENames - A Java Name Service Browser (GPL)
• The (extensible) 2k Browser
• COSSClient by Carsten Zerbst (?)

• XIOP (a CORBA ESIOP - Environment Specific Inter-ORB Protocol)
• CORBA XML-PC (Official OMG RFP issued)
• SOAP2CORBA (by LifeLine Networks)
• Soup (Ximian's C-SOAP implementation)

• True Random Numbers with CORBA (CORBA/ORBit client)

• Pure Java CORBA 2.4.2 compliant ORB: The Community OpenORB

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