License

The Orc source code and binaries are released under the BSD License.

Audience

Orc is available in different formats depending on what you will be doing with it:

• Casual users who are interested in playing with Orc.
• Eclipse users who want to develop Orc programs on their own machine in the Eclipse IDE.
• Command line users who want to run Orc programs from the command line.
• Developers who want to explore Orc's implementation.

Casual Users

Use our Try Orc! feature to experiment with Orc in your browser. We are currently working on extending the online job server to support user accounts so you can create long-running jobs; please contact us if you are interested in obtaining an account.

Eclipse Users

Click on the links below for instructions on how to download and install the Orc plugin for Eclipse. We provide instructions for the following operating systems:

• Mac OS X
• Linux
• Windows

Command Line Users

Orc is also available as a standalone JAR which you can use to run programs on the command line.

Download the latest release from Google Code. For further assistance, please see the documentation.

Developers

Orc is developed in Eclipse. The developer's quick start describes how to check out and build the Orc Eclipse project from source and start running Orc programs.