beginner begs for help

[David Wright <ichbin shadlen org>]

Help! I am desperately trying to learn to use the ORBit implementation 
of CORBA and getting nowhere fast. The only beginners' tutorial I can 
find is at http://icps.u-strasbg.fr/~genaud/ORBIT/. It looks quite good, 
but the ftp site from which to download its examples seems to be down, 
and I can't figure out how to compile them without a makefile. I don't 
know what needs to get linked to what, what needs to be included, how to 
generate an ior file, etc.

(I am using Debian unstable with the liborbit0, liborbit-dev, and orbit 
packages installed.)

Can somone please help me get on my feet? I just need a "hello world" 
client/server with a makefile (or explicit instructions on how to 
compile) for my platform.

I would most like to use pure ORBit, without with additonal 
complications of gnome and bonobo.