[omniORB] Beta release of AdaBroker, an IDL to Ada precompiler

[Fabien Azavant]

We are pleased to announce the first beta release of AdaBroker, an
IDL to Ada precompiler and a CORBA runtime based on OmniORB2.

The WWW page for AdaBroker is: http://adabroker.eu.org/

AdaBroker is released under the GNU General Public License. The software can
be downloaded from the WWW page.

Features :
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- Most of the CORBA features are implemented except dynamic
  invocation. This includes CORBA types, CORBA exceptions, forward
  declarations and multiple inheritance. The Ada tasking is also
  working with AdaBroker. AdaBroker/Examples provides
  several examples of the available features.

- This release has been successfully tested on Solaris. It has been
  reported to work on Linux (RedHat and Debian) with a home-built
  Ada and C++ compiler based on EGCS 1.1.1 and GNAT 3.11p.

- If you need to debug AdaBroker, you can create a file adabroker.opt in
  your current directory. This file should contain lines with package
  names you want to debug. For instance, corba.orb will enable debug
  messages from package CORBA.ORB. If you want to debug C++ files, you
  can set the environment variable TRACELEVEL to a given naturel depending
  on how much detailed you want the output to be.

Mailing-lists:
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Several mailing-lists have been created for discussions around AdaBroker:

  - adabroker@adabroker.eu.org: general discussions about AdaBroker
      To subscribe, send a mail to "adabroker-request@adabroker.eu.org"
      with the single line "subscribe" in the body (subject will be ignored)

  - adabroker-announce@adabroker.eu.org: low trafic mailing-list that will
      only carry important information about AdaBroker, such as new releases,
      beta test announces, etc.
      To subscribe, send a mail to
      "adabroker-announce-request@adabroker.eu.org" with the single line
      "subscribe" in the body (subject will be ignored)


Contributors:
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AdaBroker has been developped since January, 1999 by the following
contributors:

* Fabien Azavant (azavant@enst.fr)
* Emmanuel Chavane (chavane@enst.fr)
* Jean-Marie Cottin (cottin@enst.fr)
* Laurent Kubler (kubler@enst.fr)
* Vincent Niebel (niebel@enst.fr)
* Laurent Pautet (pautet@enst.fr)
* Sebastien Ponce (ponce@enst.fr)
* Thomas Quinot (quinot@enst.fr)
* Frank Singhoff (singhoff@enst.fr)
* Samuel Tardieu (sam@enst.fr)



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