Ice, the Internet Communications Engine, is a middleware for the practical programmer developed by ZeroC Inc. A high-performance Internet communications platform, Ice includes a wealth of layered services and plug-ins. . Ice is built on concepts which will be familiar to CORBA programmers, and supports a wide variety of programming languages and runtime platforms. . This package contains a jar library required to run/develop applications with Ice for Java. You will find further information in the ZeroC home page (http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html) and in the non-free package zeroc-ice-manual.
