ACE
The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is an object-oriented (OO) C++ framework that helps you develop and deploy high-performance networked applications faster and with less code to write and maintain. 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.
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Recent releases
- 28 Dec 2011 21:55
Release Notes: This release adds a timer policy template and API. There are minor bugfixes.
- 08 Dec 2011 23:16
Release Notes: This release adds support for RHEL 6.1 64-bit. It adds a new heuristic for the collocation strategy. TAO skeletons have been refactored. Connections can now be established at deployment time rather than first-use. DDS subscribers and publishers are now created when needed. CIAO has better thread safety. There are assorted bugfixes.
- 30 Aug 2011 06:21
Release Notes: This release added support for building with the Android NDK and removed support for C++ Builder. Minor bugs were fixed.
- 23 Jun 2011 21:00
Release Notes: This release adds support for GCC 4.6. It has improved support for mt_noupcall. There are assorted bugfixes.
- 21 Apr 2011 04:56
Release Notes: Improved and simplified QNX support, fixed build-time backwards compatibility, improved support for the mt_noupcall wait strategy, improved performance of the Parallel Connect Strategy in TAO, and assorted bugfixes.
Recent comments
Use ACE a lot in the last year and worked very well for us. It is well written and the examples are quite useful. AndI think it is worth buying the books as well.
Dangerous Install Script!
For those interested Linux users out there, WATCH OUT! The automated install is dangerous! In the instructions, you are to provide a root install directory, assuming that this was analogus to the usual Linux automake script variable "--prefix", us gave it /usr/local. When I didn't like what I saw, I canceled the script... & on the way out tf the script, it deleted my /usr/local directory!!!! Ouch! To make matters worse, this was on an ext3 device, which means no recovery!
From this point on, I'm going to assume any "portable" open source project not integrated with automake is hostile.
Documentation
An uncomonly high quality product for this site. Complete, reasonably easy to build, and no onerous dependencies (like relying on some XXX version of gnome libraries for instance). Now if only they could get some decent online documentation that you didn't have to pay for (see the Safari link to their book in the current docs).
No more wasted time
ACE is a very good tool for programming eficient and reusable code. Moreover is platform independent as I´ve seen compiling the same code in several linux flavours, solaris and windows with several compilers.
I've been studing about two months but after that, we have improved our productivity, focusing in design.
Pretty good middleware for networked and distributed applications. We are using it a lot.
ACE documentation
in my opinion the documentation is good to get an overview, but it sucks if you're looking for a specific method or class or something.
The html index is too sparse and I'm sure that a bunch of people don't use it because of the docs... besides from that its a really cool and well designed package. thumbs up...
douglasschmidt
30 Oct 1998 09:53
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