The Magic Carpet
for Network Computing
Last Modified: Sep. 13, 1996
NEWS
What's New?
- What's happened to HORB lately.
- What's HORB?
HORB (z[u) is the magic carpet for network computing or a kind of distributed
Java.
If you add some magic words to your Java program, your program runs on
machines distributedly. It changes the style of Internet programming and
WWW programming. It allows you to create WWW pages containing interactive
objects that communicate with objects running in your server, and forget
about CGI programming and socket programing.
You can develop standalone server-client system as well as server-applet
applications using HORB@with JDK or other development tools.
- Downloading
The HORB package contains a compiler, ORB runtime, Documentation, and complete
source code. It's free for non-commercial use or evaluation. (see licensing)
- Installation
Developers have to install HORB to use it. Installation is quite easy.
If you just examine the following demonstration via the Internet, you need
not install the package, because HORB system is automatically loaded into
your WWW browser.
- Demonstration
If you are using the Netscape WWW browser or another Java enabled Web browser,
You can see demonstrations of HORB.
- Documentation
- Preliminary HORB User's Guide, HORB API documentation, and a FAQ are
available.
- HORB Repository
http://horb.solluna.org is the offical HORB repository. It is maintained
by Kim Liu.
- Help Desk
The HORB mailing list is available for sharing information. You can find
previous articles in the archive. A FAQ (Questions and Answers) is also
available.
- Licensing
Copyright notice and licensing information are here.
- Who made HORB?
About the author and contributors. For comments, bug report, requests,
go to Help Desk.
Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Netscape is a trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation.