Installing and Building JacORB

Content

For further information, see the JacORB ProgrammingGuide.

Supported Platforms

JacORB should work under all supported Java platforms (See here). This release has been tested on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Prerequisites

Installation

  1. Recommended:
    Download "Ant" (from http://ant.apache.org) and install as described in its documentation (needed to build the demos and if you want to rebuild JacORB.)
  2. Extend your search path to include the /bin subdirectory of the installation directory so that the JacORB utilities can be found.
  3. Edit jacorb.properties and copy them to your "home" directory. Please use jacorb_properties.template as a template. Most options need no configuration, but make sure you adjust at least the URL strings for the services you plan to use (e.g. NameService and so on) to match your domain's web server or local file system structure. Please consult the ProgrammingGuide's section on setting up the name server for details. The trader and the implementation repository are located using the same mechanism. If you don't need these services, just comment out the corresponding line in the properties file.
    Also, you can configure how much diagnostic information JacORB emits by setting the jacorb.log.default.verbosity property. A value of 0 means no output, level 1 emits basic connection information, and levels 2 and above are debug levels.