[openorb-announce] OpenORB 1.3.1 released

[Jesper P. <je...@it...>]

DATELINE MAY 18, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                       The Community OpenORB 1.3.1 suite released.

May 18, 2003 (The INTERNET). The Community OpenORB team today shipped the
Community OpenORB 1.3.1 suite release. 

This bugfix release follows the 1.3.0 release after 7 months of development 
done on the SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/) servers by a team of 
developers across the world.

The major changes over the 1.3.0 release includes: 
 - Handle fragment messages correctly
 - Handle byte order marker problems with wstring 
 - Make corbaloc work with ',' and '/' again
 - Use JSSE 1.0.3_01 in SSL module as it may be distributed
 - Display naming contexts in management board correctly 

A full list of changes can be found in each package of the Community OpenORB 
suite.

The release consists of the following packages:
 o OpenORB
 o SSL
 o NamingService

The Community OpenORB suite is available for free under an Open Source license 
(The OpenORB Community Software License). 

More information about the Community OpenORB suite is available on the web 
site (http://openorb.sourceforge.net/). 

The Community OpenORB suite:
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The suite is an implementation of the Common Object Request Broker 
Architecture also known as CORBA(r); a specification by the Object Management 
Group(tm) (OMG).

The core currently implements the 2.4.2 specification with work being done to 
bring it up to the 2.6.1 sepcification.

The Community OpenORB suite also includes the following OMG services:
 o Concurrency Control Service
 o Event Service
 o Interoperable Naming Service
 o Notification Service
 o Persistent State Service
 o Property Service
 o Time Service
 o Trading Service
 o Transaction Service

The Community OpenORB suite contains no native code and is implemented in pure 
Java(tm).

The Community OpenORB suite is a community fork of the open source project
OpenORB (http://openorb.exolab.org/). The goal of this initiative is to make
the evolution of the OpenORB project more transparent and to allow the
community to take part in making decisions about its future.

Downloading and Compiling the Comunity OpenORB suite:
-----------------------------------------------------
The source package for the suite is available for free download at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43608.

The suite requires a Java 2 Development Environment version 1.3 or higher,
which is available from http://java.sun.com/. 

For further instructions on compiling and installing OpenORB, please consult
the documentation in the package. 

Binary Package:
The binary package of the suite will be available for free download under
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43608.

The suite requires a Java 2 Runtime Environment version 1.3 or higher,
which is available from http://java.sun.com/. 

Support:
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Support for the Community OpenORB suite is available at
mailto:ope...@li.... Note that registration is 
required.

More information:
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For more information about the Community OpenORB suite visit our main web
site at http://openorb.sourceforge.net/.

Press Contacts: 
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The Community OpenORB suite team can be reached at
mailto:ope...@li...

Alternative the following developers can be contacted directly:

United States (English):
 Shawn Boyce
 sh...@qc...
 +1 732 772 0990 x111

Europe (German and English): 
 Michael Rumpf
 mi...@ru...
 +49 175 59 41 349

Europe (English): 
 Jesper Pedersen
 je...@it...
 +45 87 46 64 36