ILU 2.0beta1 Available

Announcing the beta release of ILU 2.0, ILU 2.0beta1!  The
Inter-Language Unification system (ILU) is an open-source distributed
systems toolkit that supports many programming languages and
communications protocols.  The object interfaces provided by ILU hide
implementation distinctions between different languages, between
different address spaces, and between operating system types.  ILU can
be used to build polylingual class libraries with well-specified
language-independent interfaces, or to define and document interfaces
between the modules of non-distributed programs, or to build
distributed systems, including CORBA services or clients, and Web
services and clients.

The sources for ILU, pre-built Windows binaries, and information
on mailing lists can be found at

  ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/ilu/ilu.html

Languages mappings supported in 2.0beta1:

	C++
	Java
	Python
	C
	Common Lisp
	Guile Scheme

Operating systems:

	Windows	(NT, 98, 95)
	UNIX	(tested on Solaris, Linux, IRIX)

Communications protocols supported:

	ONC RPC (aka Sun RPC)
	HTTP
	CORBA IIOP
	experimental HTTP Next Generation
	XNS Courier RPC	

Some Features:

	Distributed garbage collection
	Plug-in protocols and transports
	GSS secured connections
	Thread-safe and thread-aware
	ANSI C implementation
	Message compression on-the-fly
	XML parser
	Bi-directional connections
	CORBA Interoperable Name Service
	Custom surrogates (aka "smart proxies")
	Multiple languages in one address space
	CORBA mappings for Java, C++, Python, and C

ILU is sponsored by the Xerox Corporation and the Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center (PARC).