Release Information for the Component Integrated ACE ORB (CIAO)
This document contains information on the following topics related to the
current
release of CIAO:
Current Status
- The first cut of the new  DnC 
  specification implementation, which we call DAnCE is available in
  this distribution. DAnCE is housed under  $CIAO_ROOT
  . We plan to enhance DAnCE in the next few months. We believe
  DAnCE will replace existing tool sets in
  $CIAO_ROOT/tools. There are a few features in$CIAO_ROOT/toolsthat are missing in the DAnCE
  implementation. Please see  TODO  file
  for more details. We plan to implement them soon and use DAnCE
  continuously.
-  The first cut of DAnCE includes two parts:  
  
  - 
  A modeling tool chain , 
  CoSMIC, which is capable of describing the Assembly/Component 
  using 
  GME as the development bed. The artifacts generated from the
 CoSMIC are a set of XML descriptors. 
  
  
- This run-time infrastructure that performs the actual deployment
  and  configuration, with a superset of the capabilities described in
  OMG DnC specification with CIAO extension.  
 
.
  
  
  In the new DnC run-time framework we have migrated all the
  functionalities present in the old CIAO runtime except the
  Real-Time configuration and Static Configuration, which are
  developed by Washington University in St. Louis. Currently,
  the two CIAO runtime co-exist in our source and the component
  implementation could be used with both framework without much
  change. (For the change that one has to go through please
  read this.)
  
 Two operations  ciao_preactivate () and
  ciao_postactivate () have been added to the
  SessionComponent interface. This implies that component
  developers have to implement those operations within the
  executor. We plan to get around this, i.e., users having to
  implement these two operations, in the next month or so. 
  
  
        
  Here is a set of updates in the CIDL Compiler.
  
  - Fixed bugs in generation of inherited: home operations,
  attribute operations, port operations, home factory   operations,
  supported operations. 
   
- Added support for multiplex uses ports. This implies that users
  could use "uses multiple" in their component definitions. 
   
- Added automatic registration of value factories for  event
  consumers. This has been long outstanding. This change alleviates
  component developers need to register the valuetype factory of their
  eventtypes with the ORB.   
   
- Added support for emits keyword and we now generate navigation
  code for this.
   
- Fixed bug with multiple facets in a build that provide the same
  interface. 
   
- Implemented get_all_facets() and get_all_consumers() navigation
      methods. 
  
 
 CIAO doesn't yet support features that help integrating CORBA
 components with Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).
 
 Test to demonstrate composition of applications with real-time
 behavior using CIAO's real-time extension was added. Please see
 ACE_wrappers/TAO/CIAO/tests/RTCCM/Priority_Test.
 
 The CIAO static configurator tool has been enhanced to support
 processing of RTCORBA policy related information. Please see
 ACE_wrappers/TAO/CIAO/docs/static_ciao_index.html.
Email: ciao-users@cse.wustl.edu