[omniORB] Orbs for Java

[Alex Agranov]

Try JacORB.  It's free, fully 2.0 compliant, and comes with a naming service,
trading service, applet proxy (a la gatekeeper, wonderwall,...), GUIs, and quite
a few other nice touches.  Performance is on par with the big boys as well...

 http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/~brose/jacorb/

ava

Guy Trudel wrote:

> I've worked with Visibroker 3.2 (last Visigenic release before
> Borland/Inprise) both with java and c++ on Sun Solaris and Windows. We were
> on a tight deadline to replace an old socket based server. And it just went
> great, thread stressing, server recovery on abnormal shutdown, callback.
>
> It was always a Visibroker client to Visibroker server (at that time both
> Visigenic and IONA were very quiet about interorb, saying that it could be
> done if...). All my other Corba experience was with the same client, so it
> was always Visibroker on both side.
>
> I had problem with idl reopening modules with c++, the java version was
> fine.
>
> BUT the server licence fee is ridiculous for small-medium
> client/product/system, I just don't understand Inprise/Borland. I know after
> version 3.2 they were some problems with c++. Here I want to replace NT
> NamedPipe for Corba and I did not even think of using Visibroker. For now
> (it's been only 3-4 days) I'm quite impressed with OmniORB.
>
> If you find some good Java ORB please let me know, I hope to do some other
> java server stuff in the future, for now it's to make our servers
> communicate with Corba (no NamedPipe, rpc, dcom..).
>
> Guy Trudel