The current version of MICO includes the following features:

IDL to C++ mapping

Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII)

Dynamic Skeleton Interface (DSI)

graphical Interface Repository browser that allows you to invoke arbitrary methods on arbitrary interfaces

Interface Repository (IR)

IIOP as native protocol (ORB prepared for multiprotocol support)

Portable Object Adapter (POA)

Objects by Value (OBV)

CORBA Components (CCM)

Support for using MICO from within X11 applications (Xt, Qt, and Gtk) and Tcl/Tk

Dynamic Any

Interceptors (deprecated feature)

Portable Interceptors (PI)

Support for secure communication and authentication using SSL

Support for nested method invocations

Any offers an interface for inserting and extracting constructed types that were not known at compile time

Full BOA implementation (deprecated feature), including all activation modes, support for object migration and the implementation repository

BOA can load object implementations into clients at runtime using loadable modules

Multi-threading (MT): support for thread-pool and thread-per-connection concurrency models