Mountain View, California-based PostModern Computing Technologies Inc was just one of the bevy of companies bringing Common Object Request Broker Architecture 2-compliant products to Object World last week. Its Orbeline, which supports the Object Management Group’s Internet Interoperability Object Request Broker Protocol, now includes smart proxy agents, pre- and post-method filters, a facility for loading objects from persistence storage, compiler-generated streaming operators, Interface Definition Language data types to input-output streams and exception handling, the company said. In addition it supports shared memory and includes extensions to the interface repository for re-use and the Object Group C++ mapping. Up under SunOS, Solaris, Santa Cruz Unix, NT and Windows95 now, with HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix and Silicon Graphics Inc Irix versions expected, Orbeline for Unix is $5,000 with $250 run-time licences – $1,000 on personal computers with $150 run-time licences. Meantime, Hitachi Ltd has PostModern working with it on a Common Object Request Broker Architecture-based transaction processing system using the Object Group’s object transaction service, due by mid-1996.
