Have you ever wondered about the best way to make your CORBA applications communicate across firewalls? The OMG CORBA standard leaves this question up to third party software developers to solve.

Lorica solves this problem by offering a CORBA service which is capable of tunneling CORBA communications through a predefined network port. Servers will make their objects available to clients by registering object references in Lorica. Clients can then access these server objects on specific network locations which are managed by Lorica.

Lorica is also able to encrypt your CORBA communications so that they are safe from eavesdropping when parsing insecure networks.

• Lorica is high performance, relying on the proven capability of the TAO CORBA ORB and its highly scalable asynchronous messaging features.
• Lorica is flexible and is providing a framework into which application specific modules may be plugged, further enhancing performance and security.
• Lorica may be deployed on either server or client side, providing enhanced security wherever it is needed.
• Lorica is capable of using SSL to encrypt the data flow between CORBA applications regardless whether these applications are capable of encryption themselves.
• Lorica is free (Gratis/Libre) software, available under the terms of the GPL version 2 license. Commercial licensing may be used for those who prefer it.

You can easily deploy Lorica in your network by using our platform specific installation files or you may build Lorica yourself on any supported platform leveraging one of the key strengths of Open Source Software. You can leverage another strength of Open Source by subscribing to the Lorica mailing list here.

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