Rocket® Orbix™ (formerly part of Micro Focus)

Enterprise CORBA technology for distribution at scale.

Rocket Orbix (formerly part of Micro Focus) provides the world's most widely deployed enterprise CORBA solutions. Most of the world's phone calls are touched by Rocket Software's enterprise CORBA products. Rocket Software's CORBA is embedded in telephone switches, online brokerage systems, multimedia news delivery, airline front desk systems, rail and road traffic control, large scale banking systems, credit card clearance, subway management, and CAD systems.

 

 

Rocket® Orbix® 6 (formerly a Micro Focus® product)

Scalable, secure, enterprise-ready CORBA.

 

Deploy scalable, reliable, secure, fault-tolerant enterprise CORBA systems. Rocket Orbix 6 is a modern, premier CORBA ORB, with enterprise features including high-performance, replication, load-balancing, and advanced security.

Orbix 6

Unlock Enterprise Add-On CORBA Services.

Enterprise add-ons include Security, High-Availability, Object Transaction, Notification, Event, Telecom Log, Trading, Management.

Enterprise add-ons can be individually obtained to cater to your requirements.

Interface Repository, Naming, Event, Persistent-State Service included.

Orbix 6

Notification and Telecom Log Services: Publish-and-Subscribe paradigm for CORBA.

Scalable and efficient delivery of structured events with advanced Quality of service, filtering and scheduling features.

Notification Service provides connection and event reliability for guaranteed delivery.

Telecom Log service enables persistent log of events for disaster recovery.

Orbix 6

High Availability: Reliability and scalability built-in.

High-Availability Add-On clustering architecture enables high availability, load balancing, replication, state persistence, and fault tolerance, transparent to applications.

Rocket Orbix 6 CORBA services feature high availability, replication and hot-standby.

Orbix applications can leverage the Orbix Persistent State Service features.

Frequently Asked Questions

 

Does Orbix support IPv6?

Orbix includes IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack support. Orbix can be configured to operate in IPv6 only mode, or IPv4 only mode, or dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 mode. In dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 mode, Orbix handles requests over IPv4 or IPv6 concurrently.

 

Does Orbix support Asyncronous Messaging Interfaces?

Orbix implements key Messaging features of the CORBA 3 specification. Asynchronous Messaging Interfaces (AMI) enable clients to make type-safe, asynchronous invocations of normal CORBA operations.

 

Does Orbix include visual administration and management tools?

Orbix provides enterprise management and administration tools for large-scale, mission-critical systems, enabling devops and application testing, debugging, and fine-tuning. Features include: Performance logging, Enterprise Management System integration, Management customization tools.

 

Can the Orbix Notification service use multicast?

The notification service supports User Datagram Protocol (UDP) based IP multicast as an alternate plug-in transport layer, thereby reducing the load on network resources and scaling easily to large numbers of receivers.

Additional Features for Orbix 6

Object transaction service

Add-on enables multiple-resource two-phase commit transactional support.

Advanced security

Security Service Add-On secures CORBA systems with CORBASEC and CSIv2 support.

Trading service

Trading Service Add-On provides dynamic discovery of objects and services.

Drop-in binary compatibility

Orbix 6 updates do not require your applications to be recompiled.

Bidirectional GIOP support

Bidirectional GIOP offers a solution to traversing network firewalls/ NATs.

GIOP compression plug-in

On-the-wire GIOP compression for performance on low-bandwidth networks.

 
Rocket® Orbix® 3 (formerly a Micro Focus® product)

Premier BOA-based CORBA solutions.

Orbix 3 is a modern premier CORBA BOA-based ORB for C++ and Java, with security, bidirectional GIOP, CORBA Naming Service, IPv4 and IPv6 features. Effortlessly develop and deploy interoperable distributed applications with minimal overhead.

orbix 3

Zero Administration Overhead: Turn-key CORBA runtime and development solution.

Deploy a fully functional enterprise Orbix 3 environment with minimal configuration required.

Modernize BOA-based distributed CORBA applications with no code changes.

Orbix daemon manages automatic activation and location discovery.

orbix 3

On-the-Wire Interoperability: Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) support.

CORBA IIOP support enables interoperability with standards compliant ORB implementations.

Plain Orbix Protocol support enables interoperability with earlier releases.

Transparent switching between IIOP and Orbix protocol as required.

orbix 3

Secure distributed CORBA applications.

OrbixSSL applications communicate using either IIOP or Orbix Protocol layered above SSL/TLS--ensuring authentication, confidentiality, and integrity.

Secure key distribution mechanism (KDM) service for auto-launched servers.

OrbixSSL includes support for the latest TLS protocols and cipher suites.

Frequently Asked Questions


Does Orbix 3 support IPv6?

Orbix 3 includes IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack support. Orbix 3 can be configured to operate in IPv6 only mode, or IPv4 only mode, or dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 mode. In dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 mode, Orbix 3 handles requests over IPv4 or IPv6 concurrently.

 

Does Orbix 3 support single-threaded and multi-threaded applications?

Yes. Orbix 3 includes both single-threaded and multi-threaded runtime libraries. The new and improved multi-threading model offers increased performance and allows fine-tuning to tailor the ORB performance to suit specific requirements.

 

Does Orbix 3 support the Basic Object Adapter (BOA)?

The BOA was defined in the first versions of the CORBA specification. Later versions of the CORBA specification replaced the BOA with the Portable Object Adapter (POA). Orbix 3 supports applications that rely on the Basic Object Adapter.

Additional Features for Orbix 3

Naming service with load balancing

CORBA compliant Naming Service with extensions for dynamic object replicas.

Bidirectional GIOP support

Bidirectional GIOP offers a solution to traversing network firewalls/ NATs.

Advanced runtime features

Per-process or per-object filters, smart proxies, persistent object loaders.

 

Rocket® Orbix® Mainframe (formerly a Micro Focus® product)


Get enterprise CORBA on the mainframe.

Handle the most critical and demanding enterprise workloads with CORBA on the mainframe. Rocket Orbix Mainframe is a modern CORBA ORB for COBOL, PL/I, and C++. It runs on IBM® z/OS® in batch/ISPF and USS, with IBM® CICS® and IMS integration.

Orbix mainframe

Interoperability: Seamless on-host and off-host processing.

Orbix Mainframe provides full interoperability between mainframe and non-mainframe machines through CORBA.

Expose mainframe resources to off-host machines with CORBA.

Distribute your processing off-host with CORBA.

Orbix mainframe

IBM CICS and IMS Integration Where IBM CICS and IMS meet CORBA.

Orbix Mainframe adapters enable IBM CICS and IMS transactions to interact with CORBA clients and servers, using COBOL or PL/I.

IBM CICS and IMS transactions act as CORBA servers to remote CORBA clients.

IBM CICS and IMS transactions can make CORBA requests to remote CORBA servers.

Orbix mainframe

Secure distributed CORBA applications.

Orbix Mainframe security features authentication, authorization, identity propagation control, integration with Orbix security service, and single sign-on.

Support for latest TLS protocols and ciphersuites with SystemSSL integration.

Compliant with OMG Common Secure Interoperability specification (CSIv2).

Frequently Asked Questions


Does Orbix support IPv6?

Orbix includes IPv4 and IPv6 dual-stack support. Orbix can be configured to operate in IPv6 only mode, IPv4 only mode, or dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 mode. In dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 mode, Orbix handles requests over IPv4 or IPv6 concurrently.

 

Does Orbix support asyncronous messaging interfaces?

Orbix implements key messaging features of the CORBA 3 specification. Asynchronous messaging interfaces (AMI) enable clients to make type-safe, asynchronous invocations of normal CORBA operations.

 

Does Orbix support bidirectional GIOP?

Yes. Bidirectional GIOP allows connections from the client to the server to be reused for callbacks from the server to the client. It offers a simple and efficient solution to the problem of traversing network firewalls or NATs.

Additional Features for Orbix Mainframe

Enterprise-strength OMG CORBA services

Gain Naming, Interface Repository, Persistent State, and Object Transaction Services.

Built-In High-Availability and replication

Server clustering enables load-balancing and fault tolerance.

Programming language options

CORBA clients and servers can be written in COBOL, PL/I, or C++.

 

Artix

Artix is a flexible, easy to deploy integration solution that enables organizations to rapidly build, deploy, and manage highly secure services in either C++ or Java.

Artix

Peer-to-Peer Network: Smart networking

Get a peer-to-peer network of smart, standards-based endpoints.

Performant and versatile.

Scale Artix solutions to meet your IT requirements and business strategy.

artix

Multi-Platform Support: CORBA in its core.

And, websites, digital libraries—even the dark web. Scrape most public data sources to get data insights you may not other wise have in house.

Mine multiple text, video, image, and audio formats.

artix

Plug-In Architecture: Insulated endpoints? No problem.

Configure insulated endpoints and easily extend through plug-in architecture.

Artix endpoints are configurable and insulated from the rest of the network, so services can be extended, modified, and hot deployed without disrupting the rest of the enterprise.

Dynamic and adaptable.

Additional Features for Artix

Interoperation

Operate CORBA and non-CORBA technologies without modification or changes in functionality.

Service-oriented architecture

Develop low-risk, high-value service-oriented architecture projects with the Artix peer-to-peer network.

Configurable endpoints

Configurable and insulated endpoints allow services to be extended and modified without disruption.

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