Wednesday  2004-03-31   Development

Icy MOM

MMORPG or massively multiplayer online role playing games have been a craze over the last several years. Technologically the keyword in MMORPG is 'massive' -- many games support hundreds of thousands or millions of users simultaneously. At the heart of these games is message oriented middleware or MOM. Here are two examples:

• ICE (Internet Communications Engine) from ZeroC
• iPush from Ice Technologies