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Obviously, the release of MyORB 0.2 has been delayed. Unforseen workloads on other projects have necessitated the delay. Apologies to anyone who is listening. I will try to have the release ready as soon as possible.

After the holiday hiatus, development has resumed. The release of MyORB-0.2 will probably slip to the end of January of beginning of February. A substantial refactoring in the IDL compiler was necessary and unforseen. Support for the any type, typecodes, and fixed point entities is complete and work on support for valuetypes is in progress.

The next release of MyORB will be in late December or early January. The goal for this release will be a fully functional client ORB with most, if not all basic CORBA functionality. Work is in progress to add support for TypeCode and Any. Value type semantics are targeted for inclusion in the next release, but may not be completely functional. Also, rudimentary functions of the CCM may be available.

MyORB first alpha release, version 0.1 is available. Click the download link on the left side of this page. The release is available in two packages. The myorbidl package contains the alpha IDL compiler. It has support for basic IDL functions and generates client and server stubs and skeletons. The myorb package contains the ORB code itself. There isn't a lot there at the moment. A very basic client will probably work (Some preliminary testing has been done against both JacORB and MICO). The POA is only partially functional and probably loaded with bugs. The purpose of this release is mostly to establish the packaging mechanism and test the autoconf and automake configuration. No bug reports will be accepted for the moment since this is very early alpha code.

MyORB, an open source CORBA 3.0 implementation for C++ and Java has been established on sourceforge. Watch for developments.