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The acronym MICO expands to MICO Is
CORBA. The intention of this project is to provide a
freely available and fully compliant implementation of
the CORBA standard (see [5]). MICO has become quite popular
as an OpenSource project and is widely used for different purposes. As
a major milestone, MICO has been branded as <a CORBA compliant by
the OpenGroup, thus demonstrating that OpenSource can indeed produce
industrial strength software. Our goal is to keep MICO compliant to
the latest CORBA standard. The sources of MICO are placed under the
GNU-copyright notice (see chapter 8). The
following design principles guided the implementation of MICO:
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You should visit our homepage frequently for updates. We will continue
to develop MICO, providing bug fixes as well as new features.
Information about the MICO project is available at
http://www.mico.org.
Further informations about MICO can be found in the book MICO:
An Open Source CORBA Implementation published by dpunkt.verlag
(http://www.dpunkt.de/mico) in Europe and Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, Inc.
(http://www.mkp.com/mico
) in North
America. The book includes a CD with the complete source code of
MICO as well as binaries for various platforms as ready to run
executables. It explains how to install and use MICO. A little
tutorial gets you going with a sample CORBA application. All features
of MICO are well documented both in the manual and in online
man-pages. MICO is fully interoperable with other CORBA
implementations, such as Orbix from Iona or VisiBroker from Inprise.
The manual contains a step-by-step procedure showing how to connect
MICO with other CORBA implementations. It even includes sample
programs from various CORBA textbooks to show you all aspects of
CORBA.
How to support MICO
The authors have worked very hard to make MICO a usable and free
CORBA 2.3 compliant implementation. If you find MICO useful and
would like to support it, there is an easy way to do so: contribute to
the development of MICO by implementing those parts of the CORBA
standard, which are still missing in MICO. Although MICO is fully
CORBA 2.3 compliant, there are some parts of the standard (like the
CORBAservices) which are not mandatory and which we did not implement.
We hope that our decision to place the complete sources of MICO
under the GNU public license will encourage other people to contribute
their code (see section 8 for details).
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