cipres_registry.xml the cipres application uses the java/registry/Registry class to find and activate the CORBA services it needs. The registry reads cipres_registry.xml on startup. It expects to find it in /.cipres. If you're running the cipres application, copy cipres_registry.xml to ~/.cipres and edit as needed to work on your installation. The Registry is implemented as a corba service. cipres_config.properties Put this file in /.cipres and edit it for your system (you'll at least need to replace references to "/User/terri" with your home directory). It contains cipres configuration information, such as where to find the cipres_registry.xml file, where the cipres application is installed and so forth. The java cipres commlib and the gui application require it. Currently only the java code is using it. It is read in by /usr/terri/commlib/java/cipres/Config.java build_cipres.py python script for building CIPRES and its required third party libraries (very crude, written by mth for woods hole)