Contents

• 1 Quick Start Guide
  • 1.1 Using the OSSIE VMware Player Image
  • 1.2 Running the OSSIE Demonstration Waveform
  
  
• 2 Introduction
  • 2.1 About this Guide
  • 2.2 Further Help
  
  
• 3 Installation
  • 3.1 Notes on Linux Installation
  • 3.2 Dependencies
  • 3.3 OSSIE Core Framework
  • 3.4 Using a VMware Image on Any Platform
  
  
• 4 Running Waveforms
  • 4.1 Starting the CORBA Naming Service
  • 4.2 Running nodeBooter
  • 4.3 Loading a Waveform
  
  
• 5 OSSIE Waveform Developer
  • 5.1 Creating a New Waveform from Existing Components
  • 5.2 Creating a New Component
  • 5.3 Removing Components, Devices, Nodes and Waveforms
  
  
• 6 ALF Graphical Debugging Environment
  • 6.1 Running ALF
  • 6.2 Running Waveforms
  • 6.3 Managing Running Waveforms
  • 6.4 ALF Tools
  
  
• 7 Helping With Development
  • 7.1 Giving Feedback and Submitting Bugs
  • 7.2 Making Contributions
  
  
• 8 Troubleshooting
  • 8.1 nodeBooter Throws an Exception
  • 8.2 nodeBooter Fails to Resolve `TRANSIENT' NameService
  • 8.3 OWD Component Editor Does Not Allow me to Select the Device
  
  
• A. Installing Software Development Packages
• B. Managing Services on Fedora Core 7
• C. Creating omniNames.sh
• D. Configuring ossie.pth
• E. Known Bugs
  • E..1 OSSIE Core Framework
  • E..2 OWD
  • E..3 ALF
  
  
• F. List of Abbreviations
• Bibliography