5. Installing Orber

5 Installing Orber

5.1 Installation Process

This chapter describes how to install Orber in an Erlang Environment.

Preparation

To begin with, you must decide if you want to run Orber as a:

  • Single node (non-distributed) - all communication with other Orber instances and ORB's supplied by other vendors use the OMG GIOP protocol.
  • Multi node (distributed) - all Orber nodes, within the same domain, communicate via the Erlang distribution protocol. For all other Orber instances, i.e. not part of the same domain, and ORB's supplied by other vendors, the OMG GIOP protocol is used.

Which approach to use is highly implementation specific, but a few things you should consider:

  • All nodes within an Orber domain should have the same security level.
  • If the capacity is greater than load (volume