ANN: omniORB 4.0.0 beta 2 and omniORBpy 2.0 beta 2

[Duncan Grisby]

I am pleased to announce the second beta releases of omniORB 4.0.0 and
omniORBpy 2.0.

omniORB is a robust, high performance CORBA ORB for C++. omniORBpy is
a version for Python. They are freely available under the terms of the
GNU Lesser General Public License (for the libraries), and GNU General
Public License (for the tools). For more information, see

  http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/


Highlights of the new features since omniORB 3.0 and omniORBpy 1:

 - Updated to CORBA 2.6.
 - Support for GIOP 1.1 and 1.2.
 - Wide string and codeset negotiation.
 - Unix domain and SSL transports.
 - Bidirectional GIOP.
 - Flexible thread pool mode.
 - PortableServer::Current.
 - Interceptors.
 - Fixed point.
 - Complete freeing of all heap allocations.
 - Efficient in-process calls between C++ and Python.
 - Python / C++ object reference translation API.
 - New comprehensive configuration mechanism.
 - Commercial support. See http://www.omniorb-support.com/

Release notes are available from

  http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=106616

and

  http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=106615


You can download the releases themselves via the release notes pages,
or from

  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51138


Please try out the betas and report any problems you encounter to the
omniORB mailing list (see http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/list.html).
The intention is to release a release candidate in around two weeks
time, followed by a full release shortly afterwards.

Enjoy,

Duncan.

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