Thanks to the substantial efforts by many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the ACE+TAO+CIAO x.7.0 release,
which is available from http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/. This is the latest minor release which will be followed soon by our Bug Fix Only release.
Thanks to the substantial efforts by many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the ACE+TAO+CIAO x.6.9 release,
which is available from http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/.
Thanks to the substantial efforts by many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the ACE+TAO+CIAO x.6.8 release,
which is available from http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/.
Thanks to the substantial efforts by many developers, testers, and users, we are pleased to announce the ACE+TAO+CIAO x.6.7 release,
which is available from http://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/.
The last year Remedy IT, Telefonica, and IONA have worked together on adding compression to the CORBA specification. This effort is known as ZIOP. The upcoming 1.6.6 release of TAO will have an implementation that matches the latest proposal specification.
The implementation in TAO works but does not check all policies at runtime yet. The most important implementation restriction is that we don’t guarantee interoperability until ZIOP has been adopted as standard by the OMG. Read the release notes of the upcoming TAO 1.6.6 how you can enable ZIOP when compiling TAO.
We want to ask you as user to have a look at the proposal and give us feedback. You can obtain the latest version of the proposal from http://download.theaceorb.nl/ZIOP.pdf. We will update this document frequently given the feedback we receive. Please send the feedback directly to Johnny Willemsen (jwillemsen at remedy dot nl).
Remedy IT has published the TAO Programmers Guide v0.18 (TPG for short). This version of the TPG is updated for ACE/TAO/CIAO x.6.3. One of the interested new sections is a description how to generate project files for the WindRiver Workbench 2.6 (shipped with VxWorks 6.4). With these project files ACE/TAO/CIAO and your application can be build from the WorkBench. You can download a free copy of the TPG from http://www.theaceorb.nl
Remedy IT has been working several years on the VxWorks port now. The last 6
months a lot of work has been done and it is now a good moment for a global
status update of the VxWorks port.
VxWorks 5.5.1 support was phased out of maintenance Jan 1st, 2007, but we
recently revived this port on request of one of our customers. ACE/TAO x.6.3
builds and runs out of the box for VxWorks 5.5.1 again. We are currently
working on a few last test failures after which ACE/TAO x.6.4 will have a
fully validated port again. As the contract is for a one time update
activity, shortly after x.6.4 we will end the maintenance again. If there is
enough interest and funding for this port we can keep it maintained for a
longer period of time.
The VxWorks 6.x port has recently been extended with an update for VxWorks 6.6
support. We run regular compile only builds for VxWorks 6.3/4/5/6. Regular
runtime testing is performed for VxWorks 6.4 kernel and rtp mode at this
moment. We are discussing with some interested parties to extend our testing
to VxWorks 6.6.
A recent addition is a MPC generator for the WindRiver Workbench 2.6 which
makes it possible to build ACE/TAO using the Workbench.
Furthermore we are looking for additional sponsors to fund the port to VxWorks
using shared libraries and extend the number of tests we perform for VxWorks.
All changes we have made are available as part of the DOC group version of
ACE/TAO. All build and test results can be found online at
http://scoreboard.theaceorb.nl. We have set up a document with updated
instructions on how to build and use ACE/TAO on VxWorks. This information
is for customers only.
If you are interested in using ACE/TAO on VxWorks feel free to contact us to
discuss your needs.
We are pleased to announce that the Itanium Solutions Alliance and Remedy IT
collaborate on ACE+TAO port for Linux Itanium 2-based Systems.
See the Itanium Solutions Alliance site for the full press release.