Internet Communications Engine

The Internet Communications Engine ( Ice) is a remote procedure call, and object-oriented middleware system that was developed by ZeroC. Ice is an alternative to CORBA and developed by Microsoft COM / DCOM Represents the purpose of this implementation is the communication of applications with each other to allow in various programming languages ​​and on different platforms, without compromising details of interprocess communication for the client and server are known. The engine is under a dual license (GNU GPL and a proprietary license ) and supports C , C #, Objective- C, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Visual Basic.