Comparing Ice 3.2.0 and Ice-E 1.2.0

General feature comparison

Category Ice 3.2.0 Ice-E 1.2.0
Thread Pool concurrency model
Thread per Connection concurrency model
Blocking concurrency model
Bidirectional connections
Active connection management (ACM)
Request batching
Support for UDP and SSL
Objects by Value
Implicit contexts
Servant locators
Collocation optimization
Asynchronous invocation (AMI) and dispatch (AMD)
Dynamic Ice
Protocol compression
Application and service convenience classes

C++ specific comparison

Category Ice 3.2.0 Ice-E 1.2.0
Runs on Windows and Linux
Runs on MacOS X, Solaris and HP-UX
Runs on Windows Mobile
Tested on Embedded Linux devices
Shared libraries
Static libraries
Build-time selectable feature support

Java specific comparison

Category Ice 3.2.0 Ice-E 1.2.0
Supports Java Standard Edition
Supports Java Micro Edition
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