The Caml Hump: Hydro

Hydro is an independent implementation of ICE, the object-oriented RPC protocol by ZeroC, for the O'Caml programming language. Hydro (like ICE) allows you to bridge language barriers by letting components written in different programming languages communicate with each other. ZeroC's ICE product currently includes implementations for C++, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, VB, and PHP. Hydro adds support for O'Caml. The ICE protocol is rich enough to make the representation of the data to communicate easy and convenient to use, and adopts an object-oriented type system. ZeroC sees ICE as a superior successor to CORBA.