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<h2><a href="https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/TOP/Internet+Connectivity+Engine+%28Ice%29">Internet Connectivity Engine (Ice)</a></h2>
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<div class="panel" style="background-color: #7788FF;border-width: 1px;"><div class="panelHeader" style="border-bottom-width: 1px;background-color: #2022FF;"><b>Ice - An Introduction</b></div><div class="panelContent" style="background-color: #7788FF;">
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<li>Object Oriented Middle-ware from ZeroC Inc</li>
<li>Broad platform support (Linux, Windows, Solaris, iOS, etc)</li>
<li>Lots of popular OOP languages supported (C++, Java, C#, Python, Ruby)</li>
<li>Useful services and libraries (events, service management, firewall proxy, persistence)</li>
<li>Dual license (GPL/Commercial)</li>
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<p>Notes</p>
<p>Ice is a middleware product for distributed computing from ZeroC. What does<br/>
this mean? Well, another way to put it is that it is framework for making<br/>
remote procedure calls between applications. Like most middleware products,<br/>
Ice uses an interface definition language, in this case called Slice, for<br/>
defining the interfaces and data types that can be used to communicate<br/>
between applications. In order for these definitions to be of use to the<br/>
programmer they must be converter to native implementation constructs so<br/>
that they can used by your applications. The rules governing the<br/>
translation of Slice to a particular set of programming language classes<br/>
and procedures is called a "language binding". </p>
<p>Ice provides language bindings for many popular object oriented programming<br/>
languages, e.g:<br/>
C++<br/>
Java<br/>
C#<br/>
Python<br/>
Ruby</p>
<p>In addition to providing an RPC framework, Ice provides services and<br/>
libraries for:</p>
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<li>asynchronous "event" networks</li>
<li>persistence</li>
<li>managing and locating collections of services</li>
<li>secure communications</li>
<li>firewall traversal proxy</li>
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<p>While Ice is designed form performance and scalability, it strives to be<br/>
easier to use than other middleware products.</p>
<p>Ice is also quite portable with support for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and<br/>
Solaris. Ice also supports building applications for iOS (iPod Touch,<br/>
iPhone), Android devices, Windows mobile and, a recent addition, Adobe<br/>
Flash and AIR.</p>
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