[Remoting-corba-announce] ANNOUNCE: Remoting.Corba 1.2 - CORBA/IIOP Support for .NET

[Kristopher J. <kr...@kr...>]

There is a new release of Remoting.Corba, a free/open-source .NET
library that adds support for the CORBA/IIOP protocol to the .NET
Remoting architecture.  This library allows .NET programmers to
develop clients for CORBA servers without need for any external
bridges or other middleware.

The new release is version 1.2.  Changes from the previous release
include:

- Interoperability has been verified with these ORBs:
  - TAO 1.3.1
  - omniORB 4.0.1
  - JacORB 1.4.1
  - Java 1.4.1 SDK

- The CORBA 'float' and 'double' types are supported

- The CORBA 'long long' and 'unsigned long long' types are supported

- CORBA system exceptions are mapped to .NET classes

- CORBA user exceptions can be mapped to .NET classes

- LOCATION_FORWARD responses are handled appropriately

- Null object references are properly marshaled/unmarshaled

- Service contexts no longer cause exceptions to be raised

- Network operations now have timeouts.

For more information and download links, see

  http://remoting-corba.sourceforge.net/

The focus of the next release will be the addition of a server-side
IIOP channel, allowing Remoting.Corba to be used to implement CORBA
servers and to support callbacks.

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Kris Johnson
Remoting.Corba Project Administrator