Welcome to ZeroC™, the Home of Ice™

The Internet Communications Engine (Ice) is a modern object-oriented middleware with support for C++, .NET, Java, Python, Ruby, and PHP. Ice is used in many mission-critical projects by companies all over the world.

Ice is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure and vast array of features for demanding technical applications. Ice shines where technologies such as SOAP or CORBA are too slow and complex.

Ice is free software, available with full source, and released under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). Commercial licenses are available for customers who wish to use Ice for closed-source software.

  
New Lab Project: Protocol Buffers
Google's latest open source project, Protocol Buffers, provides a serialization mechanism for structured data types. As a ZeroC Labs project, we have added native support for Protocol Buffers to Ice.
Introducing the Chat Demo
The Chat Demo is a sample Ice application that allows users to communicate with each other in real time over the internet. The purpose of this demo is to show how to design and implement an industrial-strength Ice application that meets real-world requirements. It is accompanied by an in-depth article and web clients that you can try right now.
Ice 3.3 Released
The final release of Ice 3.3 is now available for download. We encourage you to explore its many new features and improvements and visit our forums if you have any questions or comments.
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