[omniORB] omniORB 4 feature list

[Sai-Lai Lo]

This list has been requested for some time, sorry for the delay in putting
it up.

 - GIOP 1.1 and 1.2. (done) Bi-directional GIOP (to be merged).

 - More flexible transports -- SSL, unix domain ... (in progress)
      When an IOR has multiple transport options available, the
      transports are ordered into a priority list based on the
      network address of the destination. For instance, use SSL
      when the ip address is not one of the intranet.

 - Interceptors, but not the portable interceptor API. (done)
   - the portable API can be built on top of the omniORB API.

 - wchar, wstring, code set conversion. (done)

 - Fixed point type. (done)

 - Long double type.

 - Current.
   - and everything which goes with it, e.g. proper _this() semantics.

 - Fault-tolerant client support. (in progress)
      Understand IOGR. Behave as required by the CORBA Fault tolerant spec.
      An offshoot from this is that the ORB will try all IIOP endpoints
      in an IOR before giving up. 

 - Firewall proxy support. (to be merged)
      Please read the CORBA Firewall proxy spec. The GIOP proxy is
      supported. I wonder whether in fact the tcp proxy is more useful in
      practice. Any comment?

 - AMI (to be merged)

 - Maybe objects by value. (probably will not make it at 4.0)

Any feedback is most welcomed.


Sai-Lai