ACE 5.5.4 review
DownloadACE short from ADAPTIVE Communication Environment is an object-oriented (OO) C++ framework that can help you develop and deploy high-
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ACE short from ADAPTIVE Communication Environment is an object-oriented (OO) C++ framework that can help you develop and deploy high-performance software systems faster and better.
ACE is especially useful for systems that use network and/or inter-process communications and that take advantage of multithreading. While the ACE source code is free, that's not the only way you save money with ACE.
ACE's wrappers and higher-level patterns help you develop your software quickly and portably, helping you to complete your projects on time and within budget.
Over the past decade, my research group has worked with many collaborators on large-scale distributed application R&D projects in diverse domains, including command and control systems, telecom, datacom, medical engineering, distributed interactive simulations, and financial services.
Regardless of the domain and application requirements, we've found that software developers wrestle with the same core infrastructure challenges. Key challenges focus on OS platform portability, connection management and service initialization, event demultiplexing and event handler dispatching, multi-threading and synchronization, fault detection and fault tolerance, and various quality-of-service (QoS) issues, such as controlling latency, throughput, and jitter end-to-end.
Unfortunately, it's very costly, time consuming, and error-prone for researchers and developers companies to independently rediscover and reinvent ad hoc solutions to these core distributed application software development challenges.
Fortunately, we have identified a relatively concise set of patterns and framework components that can be applied systematically to eliminate many tedious, error-prone, and non-portable aspects of developing and maintaining distributed applications.
A decade of intense R&D on these topics has yielded ACE, which is an object-oriented framework that implements many core patterns for concurrent communication software. We have applied the patterns and components in the ACE framework to develop The ACE ORB (TAO), which is our standards-based, CORBA middleware framework that allows clients to invoke operations on distributed objects without concern for object location, programming language, OS platform, communication protocols and interconnects, and hardware.
TAO is designed using the best software practices and patterns that we have discovered in our work on ACE in order to automate the delivery of high-performance and real-time QoS to distributed applications.
What's New in This Release:
This release adds support for managing multiple interconnected assemblies.
It has seamless integration of swapping into the main line programming model.
A real-time event service has been integrated into CIAO and DAnCE.
There is improved syntax error checking and reporting in the CIDL compiler.
A Plan_Generator project has been added.
Numerous warnings and bugs have been fixed.
64-bit support has been improved.
STL-style traits and iterator accessors have been added to various templates.
There are code speedups, particularly in event handler dispatch.
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