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 samedomain
, 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