From: Martin Corino [mcorino@remedy.nl]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:36 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: ANN: ACE and TAO (Open Source CORBA ORB) ready for use on
OpenVms 8.2

L.S.

As a result of the ongoing efforts by Remedy IT and the sponsoring by BAE
Systems Hägglunds AB the platform support for ACE/TAO has now definitely
expanded to include OpenVMS Alpha 8.2 (IA64 support to come soon, see
below).

TAO (The ACE ORB) contains a high performance CORBA 3.x compliant C++ ORB.
Development started by the DOC Group at Washington University, St. Louis,
and is now continued at Vanderbilt University, Nashville,  under the
supervision of prof. Douglas Schmidt.
TAO also includes the following:
- Full featured IDL compiler;
- Pluggable protocols;
- Many standard CORBA services (incl. Naming Service, Logging Service,
  Time Service, Event Service etc.);
- Real Time CORBA support.

TAO runs on an abstraction layer called ACE, which is a C++ framework and
hides OS and communication issues.
More information on ACE and TAO is available at
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html.

The OpenVMS 8.2 port is the successful conclusion of an unsponsored activity
started by Remedy IT in 2004 to bring ACE up and running for Alpha OpenVMS
7.3
based on the code donated by BAE Systems Hägglunds AB.
Due to lack of sponsoring this activity was temporarily stalled during 2005
to
be revived and expanded again in 2006 with the arrival of sufficient
sponsoring.

The code for the OpenVMS port has all been submitted back into the central
DOC-group code archive and is available for any to use (see
http://deuce.doc.wustl.edu/Download.html for instructions on obtaining ACE
and TAO).

Remedy IT is still maintaining the OpenVMS Alpha port and will continue (at
least into 2007) to do so. Upgrading the port to OpenVMS 8.3 is planned for
Q4 2006.

Currently Remedy IT is also working on extending the ACE/TAO OpenVMS port to
the Itanium platform. We expect a first release for OpenVMS IA64 8.3 in Q4
2006.

To continue support for these ports as ACE/TAO evolves in the coming years
(and possibly extend the port to include CIAO) additional sponsoring will be
needed.
Support for ACE/TAO on OpenVMS platforms by Remedy IT is provided
exclusively
to sponsors or commercial support customers .
For more information concerning our support services please check out
http://www.theaceorb.nl and/or contact us at theaceorb@remedy.nl.

We hope this information has been of use.

Martin Corino.

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