5.1.3 What ORBs claim to have ``security'' functionality?

Here is a list of those products that do not claim compliance with CORBA Security specification. Nonetheless they state that they have some security functionality. Read answer to question 5.1.1 to see what implementations of CORBASEC are available:

Bill Janssen

(November, 1998)³⁸ : We have just released ILU 2.0alpha13, which contains a security system based on the IETF's GSS. It allows you to wrap client-server communication in arbitrary security contexts, depending on which security mechanisms you choose in your application. It also provides GSS-based principal identification. It's NOT CORBAsec. More ILU info at ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html.

Rohit Garg

(December, 1998)³⁹ : ObjectScape is pleased to announce the availability of JBroker 2.0 beta. JBroker 2.0 provides high performance and scalable Java CORBA ORB, services, development, and management tools that have been specially designed for building high end Java servers including Enterprise JavaBeans servers.

The beta features include:

• IDL to Java, and Java RMI to IIOP compilers
• Portable Object Adapter (POA)
• Java Objects by Value
• Server Activation
• IIOP Connection Concentrator
• Pluggable Authentication and Identity propagation
• Support for plugging in a Java Transaction Service
• IIOP Bootstrap Protocol
• Secure, Load Balancing, and Fault Tolerant COS Name Service with JNDI support
• Management/Monitoring support
• SPIs for writing adapters, threading/queueing models, building multi-machine clusters, etc.

IIOP/SSL and light-weight multicast object invocation support will also be released shortly.

For details, please see:

1. http://www.objectScape.com/jbroker.html for JBroker 2.0 data sheet

2. http://www.objectScape.com/performance.html for performance comparison with other commercial Java ORBs

3. http://www.objectScape.com/appserver.html for white paper on "Building an EJB Server using JBroker"

If you are interested in evaluating JBroker 2.0 for your projects, please send an email stating you interest to evaluations@objectScape.com. If your interests meet our beta objectives we will contact you with details on how to get our software.