The MICO CORBA Component Project

(Alcatel + FPX)

Welcome to the MicoCCM home page.

Now available: The
Assembly and Deployment Toolkit

Introduction

The MicoCCM project started in October 2000. Sponsored by Alcatel and implemented by FPX, the MicoCCM project intends to provide a reference implementation of the CORBA Component Model - the major new part of the upcoming CORBA 3 standard - based on the solid foundations of the Open Source ORB Mico.

All of the work on the MicoCCM project is available as Open Source, either as part of the Mico distribution itself or from this site.

Features

MicoCCM is complete with respect to the planned functionality: full support for extended service and session components. This includes

Support for IDL 3 (component, home and related keywords) was added to the Mico IDL compiler and its Interface Repository.
Support for all types of ports: facets (provides), simplex/multiplex receptacles (uses / uses multiple), event sources (emits, publishes) and event sinks (consumes).
Support for the Service and Session container.
Support for both monolithic and locator-based implementations.
Components can be built into standalone executables or into shared libraries.
Tools are included to install, host, load and manage component implementations.
The Assembly and Deployment Toolkit provides support for component assemblies (archives containing multiple components and deployment information that can be deployed in a single step) and XML descriptors.

All features are in sync with the official OMG specifications.

Documentation

Tutorial: mico-ccm.pdf (PDF, 87 kB) This tutorial includes an overview of the CORBA Component Model and describes the usage and implementation of CORBA Components using MicoCCM.
Manual: mico-ccm-man.pdf (PDF, 33 kB) This document describes the usage of the various tools that come with the MicoCCM distribution.
This presentation (PDF, 43 kB) about the Mico CORBA Component Project was held at the 2nd Mico Workshop on March 5, 2001.

Download

MicoCCM is part of the Mico project, so you can get MicoCCM by downloading Mico from its homepage.

Installation

Follow the usual Mico configuration and installation instructions. There is an --enable-ccm configuration switch that you must set upon running ./configure.