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Overview

IIOP.NET allows a seamless interoperation between .NET, CORBA and J2EE distributed objects. This is done by incorporating CORBA/IIOP support into .NET, leveraging the remoting framework.

IIOP.NET is released under the LGPL license.

IIOP.NET was born on May, 2 2003, and grew from a small experimental project to a stable and useful application, mostly thank to the great feedback and dedication of our growing user's community.

Features

  • Tight coupling between distributed objects in .NET, CORBA and J2EE;
    components on each platform can act in either client or server role.
  • Tranparency: existing servers can be used unmodified, without wrapping code or adapters.
  • Extensive coverage of CORBA/.NET type mappings.
  • Native integration in the .NET framework;
    IIOP.NET is directly based on the standard remoting infrastructure.

Requirements

For using this channel you need the following

  • either Microsoft .NET Framework 1.x / 2.0 (at least beta2) or Mono 1.1.7 or better
  • a CORBA 2.3 ORB peer like OmniORB, Sun JDK Orb, JacORB, IBM Websphere, ....

ORB Compatibility

Interoperation with the following ORBs has been reported:

    all wide-char not supported (request 778878 )
    SUN JDK1.4OK
    MICO2.3.10OK
    TAO1.4ok
    OmniORB4.0.3ok
    OmniORB4.0.2ok
    JacORBJacORB doesn't support Anys with typecode 30 (see FAQ 7.11)

Interoperation with J2EE applications is reported for the following application servers:

    IBM Websphere5.1ok
    IBM Websphere5.0ok
    IBM Websphere4.0ok
    JBoss4.0.2ok
    JBoss3.2.3ok
    JBoss3.2.2no (JBoss bug #829734)
    JBoss3.2.1ok
    JBoss3.0.6in progress
    BEA Weblogic8.1ok
    BEA Weblogic7in progress
    BEA Weblogic6.1array mapping problems
    Borland Enterprise Server5.2.1partially tested

IIOP.NET on Microsoft .NET Framework:

    MS .NET2.0 beta2
    MS .NET2.0 beta1
    MS .NET1.x

IIOP.NET on Mono:

    Mono1.1.9ok with IIOP.NET 1.8.x or newer
    Mono1.1.8ok with IIOP.NET 1.8.x or newer
    Mono1.1.7ok with IIOP.NET 1.8.x or newer
    Mono1.0.x
    Mono0.31

Awards

Sept 2003 SDNUG Tool of the month
July 2003 The CodeProject Building a Distributed Object System with .NET and J2EE Using IIOP.NET: Best article of the month

About this project

This project is maintained by Elca Informatique SA and was developed in collaboration with the Programming Languages and Runtime Systems Research Group of the ETH-Zurich as part of Dominic Ullmann's diploma thesis.

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