The Magic Carpet
for Network Computing

Last Modified: Sep. 13, 1996

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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.


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