Articles
Application Design
- Let's Chat! (July 2008)
- This two-part series provides an in-depth discussion of the design and implementation of ZeroC's chat demo.
Articles about Ice Published in Industry Magazines
- A New Approach to Object-Oriented Middleware (IEEE Internet Computing, Jan 2004)
- This article provides an overview of Ice and its main features.
- Massively Multiplayer Middleware (ACM Queue, Feb 2004)
- This article describes how Ice was used by an online game with extreme performance and scalability requirements, and how the game requirements influenced the design of Ice.
- Eiskalt Serviert—Verteilte Internet Anwendungen mit Ice (in German)
- This article provides a general overview of application development with Ice, discusses key aspects of the Ice architecture, and provides a few examples of using Ice APIs, and compares Ice with other middleware alternatives.
Other Articles
- The Rise and Fall of CORBA (ACM Queue, June 2006)
- This article takes a look at the history of CORBA and examines why CORBA ended up as a little-used niche technology.
- API Design Matters (ACM Queue, May/June 2007)
- Bad API design is rampant in the industry, with major impact on the reliability of sofware. This article suggests some changes we need to make, both technical and cultural, in order to overcome the API malaise.