mico/E

Maintainer

Robert Switzer and others

Description

mico/E aims to be a complete CORBA implementation in Eiffel.

The » OMG has not yet released an IDL/Eiffel mapping (and very well may never do so). There was a joint proposal from ICL/ISE/Tower authored by Howard/Meyer/Nash that has been submitted to the OMG, but it does not seem to exist any more.

Anyway, mico/E uses its own IDL/Eiffel mapping which has been modified several times to remove some of its most glaring weaknesses and to adopt those points in the ICL/ISE/Tower proposal that we found particularly good. It has been adapted recently to the new elements of the » CORBA 2.3 specification, e.g. value types.

Categories

• Libraries - CORBA

Versions

• 2.3.2.1 (2002-07-08)

Links

• » Overview
• » Documentation
• » Download

Features

• a compiler eifidl that translates the full range of the language IDL into stubs, skeletons and abstract interface classes in Eiffel based on the IDL/Eiffel mapping mentioned in the previous section
• Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII)
• Dynamic Skeleton Interface (DSI)
• an Interface Repository (IR)
• an Implementation Repository (IMR)
• CORBA Services: Naming Service, Event Service, Trader Service, and Persistent State Service (PSS)
• IIOP as native protocol (ORB prepared for multiprotocol support)
• Support for using mico/E from within X11 applications (eGTK, VEGTK)
• Interceptors
• Portable Object Adapter (POA) and Basic Object Adapter (BOA)
• Object by Value
• DynAny
• locality contraint objects
• basic Corba Components (CCM) features

Supported compilers

• ISE Eiffel (ISE Eiffel 4.5)
• SmartEiffel (SmallEiffel -0.75b7)

Platforms

• Linux
• OSF/1 (on Alpha)
• Win32

Licensing

• » Gnu General Public License (GPL) (everything else)
• » Gnu Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (libraries)
• » Public Domain (generated output is not copyrighted)

Dependencies

• eGTK (used for some examples)

Support

• » Support is available through mailing lists

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