Ice 1.1.0 released
Marc Laukien
availability of the Internet Communications Engine (Ice), version 1.1.0.
Ice is used as foundation for "Wish", the MMORPG title in development by
Mutable Realms, Inc. (http://www.mutablerealms.com).
There are several notable new features in Ice 1.1.0:
* Support for Solaris, including Sun C++ compiler versions 5.3, 5.4,
and 5.5, both 32 and 64 bit.
* Support for Linux on AMD Opteron, both 32 and 64 bit.
* New Windows installers for users of Visual Studio .NET.
* Several enhancements to the Ice protocol, including support for
exception and class slicing.
* Dynamic thread pools for more efficient resource utilization.
* Active connection management, to automatically close idle
connections and re-open them on demand.
* Improved C++ signal handling facilities.
* Simplified and enhanced C++ threading and locking primitives.
* Many documentation enhancements, including a new Ice Protocol chapter.
For a detailed description of Ice, please have a look at
http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html. For a comparison of Ice and CORBA, please
see http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html.
In addition to traditional proprietary licensing models for commercial
customers, Ice is also freely available as Open Source under the terms
of the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the complete
Ice source and documentation from http://www.zeroc.com/download.html.