Ice, the internet communications engine, is a middleware for the practical programmer developed by zeroc inc. a high-performance internet communications platform, ice includes a wealth of layered services and plug-ins.

ice is built on concepts which will be familiar to corba programmers, and supports a wide variety of programming languages and runtime platforms.

freeze is the persistence framework included in ice. this package installs the freeze libraries. you will find further information in the zeroc home page (http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html) and in the non-free package zeroc-ice-manual.