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DIET TutorialRaphael¨ Bolze, Eddy Caron, Philippe Combes, Holly Dail and Christophe PeraINRIA Rhone Alpes1 IntroductionThis is a tutorial for DIET (Distributive Interactive Engineering Toolbox). It comes with three directories :exercise2, exercise3 and solutions. The exercise directories contain the skeletons for the programs youwill have to write,solutions contains the solutions to the exercises.2 Exercise 1 : Installing and compiling DIETThe installation process is described in full in the User’s Manual. In the following section we provide a quick startguide. Install DIET in the directory of your choice, for instance ${HOME}/DIET. For this tutorial, FAST will notbe used, and as regards omniORB, please add the ${OMNIORB HOME}/bin directory in your PATH, or give thefollowing option to theconfigure script : with omniORB=${OMNIORB HOME}2.1 Dependencies2.1.1 Hardware dependenciesDIET has fully tested on Linux i386 and i686 platforms and has tested on Solaris/Sparc, Linux/Sparc, Linux/i64,Linux/amd64 and Linux/Alpha platform and seems to be supported.If you found a bug in DIET, please submit a bug report athttp://graal.ens lyon.fr/bugzilla. If youhave multiple bugs to report, please make multiple submissions, rather than submitting multiple bugs in one report.2.1.2 Software dependenciesCORBA is used for all communications inside the platform. So all of the three parts depend on it. The implementa tions of CORBA currently supported in DIET are :– omniORB ...