Re: ACE functionality in Ada

[Larry Hazel <lhazel@mindspring.com>]

In article <7heuhk$f1m$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> In article <7heqc9$bj8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Larry Hazel <lhazel@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know anything about ACE (Adaptive Communications
> > Environment)?  There is a web page at
> > http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html.  I've been given the job
of
> > trying to build this on a Solaris system.  Possible use in Army C3I
> > systems.
> >
> > I'm hoping someone will post - "Why use ACE when XXX does everything
> ACE
> > does and more and it's all Ada."
>
> It seems to be a project to develop a set of C++ networking patterns.
> The Ada pattern archive at
> http://info.acm.org/sigada/wg/patterns/patterns/index.html may have
some
> of them. Then again, I suspect using an Ada compiler that supports
Annex
> E (distributed systems) would be an easier solution.

The features of the distributed systems annex would be great.  But, I
thought it was defined for a homogeneous network using the same compiler
on all nodes.  If it will work with nodes of different cpu, OS,
compiler, it would solve all our networking problems.


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