%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ <application> <acronym>ORB</acronym>it</application>-&ORBit-version; ORBit Introduction to <application><acronym>ORB</acronym>it</application> The ORBit package contains a high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker. This allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs. Package information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &ORBit-md5sum; Download size: &ORBit-size; Estimated disk space required: &ORBit-buildsize; Estimated build time: &ORBit-time; <application><acronym>ORB</acronym>it</application> dependencies Required Optional Installation of <application><acronym>ORB</acronym>it</application> Install ORBit by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome && make Now, as the root user: make install Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories ior-decode, libIDL-config, name-client, old-name-server, orbit-config, orbit-idl, orbit-ird, orbit-event-server and orbit-name-server libIDL.[so,a], libIIOP.[so,a], libname-server.a, liborbit-c-backend.a, libORBit.[so,a], libORBitCosNaming.[so,a] and libORBitutil.[so,a] /opt/gnome/share/idl, /opt/gnome/include/libIDL-1.0 and /opt/gnome/include/orbit-1.0 Short Descriptions libIDL.[so,a] library is the Interface Definition Language mappings for CORBA. libIDL.[so,a] libIIOP.[so,a] is for low level CORBA communications. libIIOP.[so,a] libORBit.[so,a] is the CORBA API. libORBit.[so,a] libORBitutil.[so,a] contains the convenience routines for ORBit. libORBitutil.[so,a]