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Orbit Appliance Demo

Orbit is a tool to create rich, live and interactive multi-user applications across web and mobile platforms.

We provide a demo of Orbit inside a virtual machine. This is the easiest way we found to show you a working demo of Orbit that'll work whatever your environment is. Please contact us if you want to try Orbit.

Requirements

• Orbit appliance
• VirtualBox
• Flash Builder -- Recommended to run the client application.

Getting stated

• Start VirtualBox
• Add a machine and select Orbit.vbox
• Open VM settings
• Navigate to Network / Adapter 1 / Advanced / Port Forwarding
• Create a new rule `flashboard' to redirect host port 4248 to VM port 4248
• Start the VM
• Open a terminal
• Go into the demo project: $ cd Demo/flashboard
• Compile the events / entities: $ orbitc
• Compile it: $ waf configure build
• Test it: $ build/debug/server/flashboard --config server/config.xml
• Open Flash Builder
• Create a new Flex project called flashboard
• Select the folder flashboard/client (clone it if needed)
• Press Next twice
• Click Browse next to Main application file and select Flashboard.mxml
• Run the Flex application
• Draw!

Installation

Once the application is working, you'll want to run it along with other Orbit applications. You need to install it under /var/orbit.

• Compile it: $ waf configure build install --prefix=/var/orbit
• Enable it: $ cd /var/orbit/apps/ && ln -s available enabled
• Run it: $ orbit -d /var/orbit start

Troubleshooting

Make sure you have correctly set up port forwarding and that the server says Flashboard server started on 0.0.0.0:4248.

Also, Flash will need a socket policy file on the server if you want to run it in release (but that's not what you want).