Ice: a framework for middlewares

Ice (Internet Communications Engine) is an open source framework which arises for middleware and communication systems production, based on a robust and reliable protocol which implements, very often at zero cost, retry policies, fault-tolerance, load balancing / distribution, and versioning.
Compared to SOAP and CORBA it's a simplified solution, with the purpose to build up systems in short time, assuring high scalability and maintenance in each case.
It supports several languages, but it finds in Python the perfect buddy thanks to the intrinsic dynamism and easiness that marks it all along. The talk will be focussing on the Ice base technology presentation, with a complete example of a client / server platform implementation