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.

this metapackage contains dependencies for all ice related packages. 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.