AdironORB 1.0

AdironORB is a rework of the Community OpenORB. The Community OpenORB 1.3 was a tangled, inefficient implemenation that was not of the modularity it had claimed to be. The Adiron Team reimplemented the core around the protocols and request dispatch to allow easy integration of plug-ins for different protocols, plus many fixes and gains in speed and efficiency. As for modularity, you can practically use our internal architecture plugability to enable the use of the ORB interfaces to deliver object requests via bike messenger if so choose to implement an eanbling plug-in. :^)

The base AdironORB comes with an implemenation of GIOP and IIOP 1.3 protocols. You use ORBAsec SL3 to provide the plug-ins for security, using CSIv2 and ATLAS.

AdironORB Support

We cannot provide support on AdironORB alone. The AdironORB license is only valid in conjunction with a current and valid ORBAsec SL3 license.

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AdironORB Features

Complete redesign of the internals of the OpenORB by Polar Humenn that provides:

• Better separation of internal ORB components allowing greater flexibility for creating new protocols, such as adding for security.

• Plugable transport and message protocols.

• Flexible thread management at the server side. Many thread models are provided.

• Clean ORB initialization process using the Avalon framework.
• Properties based ORB configuration using the Avalon framework.
• A lot of existing code was ported, along with much more new code developed, and some bugs fixed.
• About a 20%-30% speed up over OpenORB 1.3.0 (measured with small size requests). See the "./src/doc/AdironORB-vs-OpenORB.pdf" file for details.

• Interception of invocations on collocated objects without marshalling.  This can be managed with the LocalInterceptPolicy.
• Support for the PortableInterceptor::UNKNOWN reply status (from CORBA 3.0).
• No polling overhead on the server (except for the Windows platform). That is, the reading timeout on a server channel is zero. On Windows, timeout of 1000 ms (same as OpenORB) is used to simulate zero timeout.
• Support for firewall: iiop.highPort and iiop.lowPort properties.
• Converting "-ORBxxx" command-line arguments into parameters named like "org.omg.CORBA.ORBxxx" according to the CORBA 3.0 spec, Sec. 4.5.1. Arguments of form "-ORBInitRef xxx=yyy" are converted into parameters named like "org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitRef.xxx" with value "yyy".
• Support for attaching per-thread information to Delegates. This use gives a proprietary way for applications to communicate with interceptors without using policies.
• Support for the newer ORB interface defined in CORBA Spec 2.5 such as ORB.id and ORB.register_initial_reference.
• Support for the rebind policy defined in CORBA Spec 2.5, Messaging. All rebind modes are supported.

• Removed the support for the OpenORB-specific Corbaloc service.
• No support for the fallback mechanism that uses the local file system.
• XML-based ORB configuration is not implemented.
• BiDir GIOP is supported in interfaces, but it has not been implemented.

• FULL SOURCE CODE!
• ORBAsec SL3 and AdironORB is an Available Source distribution, which is free for educational use and evaluation.
• FREE EDUCATIONAL AND EVALUATION LICENSES!
• ORBAsec SL3 and AdironORB is free for educational, personal use, and evaluation.
• Commercial licenses are available for development and deployment in commerical and research environments.
  

Requirements for AdironORB 1.0

• J2SDK 1.4.2 SE available at java.sun.com .
• Ant-1.5 available at ant.apache.org

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