Pangaea will be a robust and feature filled game engine built using Allegro (http://alleg.sourceforge.net) It will be similar to Final Fantasy 1-3, etc., complete with map editor/world builder.
When writting portable C++ CORBA code one finds that each ORB vendor has its own set of libraries, include files, caracteristics, etc. This project's goal is both:
1. to provide a set of autoconf/automake/libtool macros to support as many ORBs (C & C++)
OpenORM is an OpenSource Object Relational mapping broker based on Scott Ambler whitepapers.
It's developed on C++ and the objects that it persist are CORBA objects.
We are currently using omniORB2 as our ORB and PostgreSQL as our database server.
MPS is a Message Passing System, similar to, but not compatible with, CORBA and its IDL. Interfaces are specified in an IDL-like language; bindings exist for C++ and Java, on multiple platforms.