omniORB3 is a GPL'd Object Request Broker (ORB) which implements
specification 2.3 of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).
Further information on CORBA can be found at http://www.omg.org/

> TECHNICAL FEATURES:
- C++ language bindings are supported. The mapping conforms to the latest
  revision of the CORBA specification. 
- Support for the Portable Object Adapter (POA)
- Support for the Interoperable Naming Service (INS)
- The Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP 1.0) is used as the native protocol. 
- The omniORB3 runtime is fully multithreaded. It uses native platform thread
  support encapsulated with a small class library, omnithread, to abstract
  away from differences in native thread APIs. 
- TypeCode and type Any are supported. 
- DynAny is supported (CORBA 2.2) 
- The Dynamic Invocation and Dynamic Skeleton interfaces are supported 
- A COS Naming Service, omniNames, is provided. 
> FEATURES STILL TO BE IMPLEMENTED:
- Support for IDL type longdouble, wchar, wstring, fixed, valuetype.
> MISSING FEATURES:
- omniORB3 does not has its own Interface Repository. However any CORBA
  compliant Interface Repository can be used with omniORB3. 

WWW: http://www.uk.research.att.com/omniORB/