gable transport called "SSLIOP" has been implemented.
It provides secure communication between hosts that support IIOP over SSL,
and is meant to be a drop-in replacement for the IIOP pluggable transport.
TAO's SSLIOP pluggable transport implementation supports both the standard
IIOP transport protocol and the secure IIOP over SSL transport protocol.</li>

<p>No changes were made to the core TAO sources to provide to this SSL
support, nor does TAO contain any security related hooks. TAO's SSLIOP
implementati