a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA™ or COM/DCOM/COM+. Ice is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical applications.
a toolkit for the development of massively online universes. It provides the base technologies and a set of development methodologies for the development of both client and server code.
network programming library. It is designed to take the pain out of programming network communications applications, providing an easy to use and cross-platform interface.
a network library It depends on : - libpcap and libnet under Unix - WinPCAP under Windows If libpcap/libnet/WinPCAP are not installed, sniffing and spoofing features are not available.
an event-driven networking framework supports TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, multicast, Unix sockets, a large number of protocols (including HTTP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others)
a robust, somewhat scalable, cross-platform client-server messaging system for dynamic distributed applications that runs under any POSIX-compliant operating system.