The CORBA implementation in the Classpath project is now a working prototype. This prototype is interoperable with Sun's implementation v 1.4, transferring object references, primitive types, narrow and wide strings, arrays, structures and trees between these two platforms. The thrown exceptions are also transferred and handled. The support for stringified object references (IORs) is implemented. The redirection commands works, LOCATION_FORWARD_PERM changing the target address until the application is restarted and LOCATION_FORWARD redirecting for the current session only. Both Little and Big Endian encoded messages are accepted. The encoding of the sent messages is the same as used in the stringified IOR reference of that object or Big Endian, if no such data available.

The current release supports the Value types that appeared since v 1.3 and are something between CORBA structures (no methods, data local) and CORBA objects (both methods and data remote). Value type has local data, can have local methods and is transferred by value, not by IOR reference.