omniORB is a robust high performance CORBA ORB for C++ and Python. It is
freely available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
(for the libraries), and GNU General Public License (for the tools). It is
one of only three ORBs to have been awarded the Open Group's Open Brand for
CORBA. This means that omniORB has been tested and certified CORBA 2.1
compliant.
The technical highlights are:
  * C++ and Python language bindings.
  * Adheres to the CORBA 2.6 specification.
  * Support for GIOP and IIOP 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.
  * Fully multithreaded runtime.
  * TypeCode and type Any.
  * CORBA 2.6 DynAny interfaces.
  * Dynamic Invocation and Dynamic Skeleton interfaces.
  * Complete Naming Service, omniNames.
  * Support for wchar, wstring and code set negotiation.
  * Full long long, long double, fixed point support.
  * PortableServer::Current.
  * Unix domain socket transport.
  * Bidirectional GIOP.
  * Interoperable Secure Socket Layer transport.
  * Flexible thread management.
  * Interceptors.
  * Fully interoperable with other CORBA ORBs.