Orbacus FAQs
Please see support for Orbacus support questions.
Q: What is Orbacus?
A:Orbacus is a CORBA 2.6 environment designed for easy development and fast deployment. Development and deployment can be done in both C++ and Java. Its small footprint allows it to be easily integrated into other applications. It is provided with source code and is supported directly by the development engineers. It will be fully supported by IONA at least until 2010 on the latest versions of OS and compiler combinations. Orbacus is a mature product that is deployed in over a thousand mission critical systems in the telecommunications, defense, government, aerospace and transportation industries.
Q. How much does Orbacus cost
A.Development kits are free and are available on the website for download. For competitive runtime pricing, Standard/Silver/Gold/EOL Support, contact us.
Q: Where can I find Orbacus documentation, examples or demos?
A: For example and demo programs (after unpacking your new Orbacus product) have a look at the directories */demo and */test. PDF and HTML versions of the Orbacus User Guide are available.
For a PDF viewer, please see Adobe Acrobat.
Q. What operating systems and compilers does Orbacus support?
A. see - Platforms
Q: Is it possible to download precompiled Orbacus binaries from the IONA web page?
A: No, we don't have precompiled binaries for Orbacus for C++ For example, we would have to publish versions with and without debugging information, with and without optimization, with and without shared libraries, etc. In addition, not all Orbacus users use the same libraries , for example some use differing iostream libraries for their Visual C++ programs. The number of combinations in use within the CORBA community we support are virtually endless.
One big advantage of Orbacus for C++ is that you have the source code, and therefore are able to build a version that exactly fits your needs. The IDL-to-Java translator and other utilities are written in C++ and are included in the Orbacus for C++ distribution. To avoid requiring Orbacus for Java users to build the C++ distribution, we do provide executables of the Java tools for our supported platforms.
Q: Why is Orbacus so easy to integrate into my environment?
A: It is easier to make Orbacus "fit" into an existing environment because it is compiled from source, allows customers to:
- Choose features of the product they wish to use in their application to optimize size and speed characteristics.
- Create "debug builds" to help perfect CORBA applications.
- Use the product's service implementations as examples of real world CORBA services.
- Obtain and apply source code patches more easily than for traditional binary products.
- Build applications on different distributions of Linux
