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Ice - Comprehensive RPC Framework

Ice helps you network your software with minimal effort. By taking care of all

interactions with low-level network programming interfaces, Ice allows you to focus

your efforts on your application logic. When using Ice, there is no need to worry

about details such as opening network connections, serializing and deserializing

data for network transmission, or retrying failed connection attempts (to name just

a few of dozens of such low-level details).

You can download Ice releases from ZeroC's website.

Use this GitHub repository to build from source; see branches for more

information.

Languages

Ice supports the following programming languages:

C#

C++

Java

JavaScript

MATLAB

Objective-C

PHP

Python

Ruby

Platforms

Ice runs on a wide range of platforms:

Android

iOS

Linux

Linux on embedded devices

Node.js

macOS

Web Browser

Windows

Universal Windows

Features

Efficient, high-performance binary protocol

Supports a wide range of programming languages and platforms

Easy to use and type-safe API, with your own interfaces and types defined in

a programming language neutral IDL, Slice

Supports secure, encrypted communications by taking advantage of your

platform's native SSL/TLS stack

Familiar object-oriented programming model, with the ability to transmit

proxies (references to remote objects) to remote applications

Supports synchronous and asynchronous calls, for both client-side invocations

and server-side dispatches

Automatic discovery of remote objects through UDP multicast

Comes with a number of optional services:

IceGrid - a DNS-like

service for Ice objects, with support for server deployment, replication,

monitoring, load-balancing and more

IceStorm - a

lightweight topic-based pub-sub service

Glacier2 - a

sysadmin-friendly solution for routing Ice communications through firewalls

IcePatch2 - an

efficient software distribution and patching service

Branches

master

Primary development branch (unstable, frequently updated)

3.7

Ice 3.7.x plus various patches (stable, frequently updated)

3.6

Ice 3.6.x plus various patches (stable)

3.5

Ice 3.5.1 plus various patches (stable)

3.4

Ice 3.4.2 plus various patches (stable)

Copyright and License

Ice is a single-copyright project: all the source code in this ice

repository is Copyright © ZeroC, Inc.,

with very few exceptions.

As copyright owner, ZeroC can license Ice under different license terms, and

offers the following licenses for Ice:

GPL v2, a popular open-source license with strong

copyleft conditions (the default

license)

Commercial or closed-source licenses

If you license Ice under GPL v2, there is no license fee or signed license

agreement: you just need to comply with the GPL v2 terms and conditions. See

ICE_LICENSE and LICENSE for further information.

If you purchase a commercial or closed-source license for Ice, you must comply

with the terms and conditions listed in the associated license agreement; the

GPL v2 terms and conditions do not apply.

The Ice software itself remains the same: the only difference between an open-source

Ice and a commercial Ice are the license terms.

Documentation