Developer's Guide

Notes on designing and writing components

Independence of individual components from each other is the cornerstone of component-based approach to software and, therefore, the Orca project. This means that you can write your components any way you want. Still, some approaches to organizing your component code lead to more efficient, maintainable, and understandable code.

• Adding Interfaces to Orca
• Adding Source Code to Orca
• Starting Your Own Orca Project
• Suggestions on the Internal Component Structure
• Testing Orca Components
• Performance of Orca Components
• Miscelaneous notes on writing Orca code with Ice.

Other useful information

• Orca Overview
• Orca Configuration Files
• Orca Units and Coordinate Systems
• Orca C++ Programming Style Guide
• Version Control
• The Orca Build System
• How to Submit a Patch
• Running Components as Daemons
• Automated Testing with CDash

Internal project documentation

• Changes since Last Release and To-Do List
• Release Instructions
• Project Logos