IIOP Tracer Features

  • Easy integration into existing management applications
  • Reliable tool for debugging of CORBA-based applications
  • Complete decoding of IIOP messages including all parameters
    • Supports GIOP version 1.1 (version 1.2 in preparation)
    • No ORB-specific code
  • No instrumentation of the targeted application necessary
  • The IIOP Tracer works transparently
  • Highly parameterizable
    • Amount of recording data is configurable
    • Configuration file
  • Modular architecture, easy to extend and adapt
    • Decoupling of Sniffer (network access) and TraceServer (processing)
    • Frontend for Interface Repository and direct access to IDL files
    • Backends for compact or formatted verbose output of data
  • Implementation based on libpcap
    • Offers efficient in-kernel filtering
    • High portability