[omniORB] omniORB 3 and the POA now available!

[David Riddoch]

Dear omniORBers,


The omniORB version 3 development tree is now available on the CVS server.
The branch tag is 'omni3_develop'.  For more information about the CVS
server please see:

  http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/cvs.html


This version of the ORB is really at the 'alpha' stage -- there is a
large amount of new code here.  Having said that, most of it has been
tested extensively, and there are no known bugs (other than missing
features).  Also, because this is a development branch, you can expect to
see regular updates of new features.


If you are new to the POA, please have a look at the examples 
(particularly src/examples/echo/*).  There will also be some more POA
specific examples in src/examples/poa, but these have not been written
yet!


New features:

  o  support for the Portable Object Adapter (POA)
  o  identical semantics for local and remote object invocations
  o  location forwarding into and outof the local address space
  o  new dynamically growing object table (improves performance
      for applications with large numbers of objects)
  o  legacy support for the BOA (including using both BOA and POA
      together in the same process)
  o  improved message logging, including logging application
      level requests
  o  lots of other stuff

What's missing?

  o  lifecycle service support
  o  PortableServer::AdapterActivator
  o  PortableServer::Current

I'm working on it!


Have fun,
David