All releases of Internet Communications Engine
Release Notes: Various additions, including redundant IceGrid registries.
Release Notes: The most significant change since version 2.1.2 is the addition of IceGrid, a replacement for the IcePack activation service that revolutionizes the way you build and deploy your Ice applications. With support for replication, load balancing, and application distribution, IceGrid provides the tools you need to create scalable grid applications and manage them remotely.
Release Notes: Changes since version 2.0.0 include an implementation of IceSSL for Java, support for bi-directional connections without using a router, a fast and lightweight new file patching service, many performance improvements, easy RPM installation for Linux, an improved Windows installer, new binary distributions for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, and numerous other improvements and bugfixes.
Release Notes: Support for Python and Visual Basic mappings was added. A new light-weight firewall is included. Dynamic invocation and dispatch were implemented. Numerous other improvements and bugfixes were made.
Release Notes: This release features a new native implementation in C#, supported for both .NET and Mono.
Release Notes: This release adds a redesigned facets API, new chapters in the Ice manual on facets and the IcePatch service, and numerous other improvements and bugfixes.
Release Notes: This release adds a set of tools for inspecting and migrating Freeze databases, Windows support for the IcePack and Glacier services, platform support for Windows 9x/ME, HP-UX, and MacOS X, and numerous other improvements and bugfixes.
Release Notes: This version features a garbage collector for Ice for C++ that automatically resolves cyclic object dependencies in class instances, and a new database migration tool that provides much greater control over the migration process than the old XML schema based approach. Freeze now uses transactions for all write operations, a Freeze background thread periodically saves created, modified and destroyed objects, and a new Freeze evictor index class provides easy-to-use and efficient secondary-key querying. Marshaling performance has been improved, and there are numerous minor improvements and bugfixes.
Release Notes: This version features minor bugfixes and improved documentation.
Release Notes: Support for Solaris, including Sun C++ compiler versions 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5, 32 and 64 bit. Support for Linux on AMD Opteron, 32 and 64 bit. Windows installers for Visual Studio .NET. Enhancements to the Ice protocol, including support for exception and class slicing. Dynamic thread pools for more efficient resource utilization. Active connection management to automatically close idle connections and re-open them on demand. Improved C++ signal handling facilities. Simplified and enhanced C++ threading and locking primitives. Documentation enhancements, including a new Ice Protocol chapter.
