Release Notes

What's new?

Object map is an usual Lua table that can manipulated by the application to implement different servant management policies [demo objectmap].
CORBA interceptors can forward the invocation to an alternative reference, both in the client or server side.
Support to define file paths for search of IDL files defined used #include.
LuDO support for parameter passing by reference.
New flavor lua that enables special proxies that delegate their meta-method to their servants (for LuDO by reference only).
General interception mechanism (works for CORBA, LuDO or any other protocol).

Improved Features

New interceptor implementation with more information and more about the call.
New ORB assembler and builder scripts and simplification of field flavor.
Interface parameter (3rd) of newservant now overwrites field __type of the servant's implementation.

Removed/Deprecated Features

Module oil.compat is no more available.
Alternative proxies (__deferred and __try) are not created automatically. Instead, use the following commands to explicitly create such proxies whenever necessary.
- deferred = orb:newproxy(proxy, "asynchronous")
- try = orb:newproxy(proxy, "protected")
Pseudo-method proxy:_narrow() is deprecated in favor of orb:narrow(proxy).
Operation orb:setclientinterceptor(iceptor) is deprecated in favor of orb:setinterceptor(iceptor, "corba.client").
Operation orb:setserverinterceptor(iceptor) is deprecated in favor of orb:setinterceptor(iceptor, "corba.server").

Bug Fixes

Bugfix in processing of forward declarations in IDLs.
Bugfix to invoke interceptors when exceptions are raised.
Bugfix to prevent _non_existent to raise exceptions like COMM_FAILURE.
Bugfix to prevent that marshal errors stops the orb:run() method.
Bugfix when unknown repIDs are imported from a remote IR.
Bugfix to make idl2lua.lua script raise errors when there are problems with the contents of the IDL file.