Terminology

Every computing technology creates its own vocabulary as it evolves. Ice is no exception. However, the amount of new jargon used by Ice is minimal. Rather than inventing new terms, we have used existing terminology as much as possible. If you have used another middleware technology, such as CORBA, in the past, you will be familiar with most of what follows. (However, we suggest you at least skim the material because a few terms used by Ice do differ from the corresponding CORBA terminology.)