ACE Overview

ACE Overview

ACE(ADAPTIVE COmmunication Environment) is a open-source, cross platform, object-oriented comunication software framework.

ACE structure：

The ACE OS Adapter Layer
shield platform dependencies
a. Concurrency and synchronization
b. Interprocess communication(IPC) and shared memory
c. Event demultiplexing mechanisms
d. Explicit dynamic linking
e. File system mechanisms

C++ Wrapper Facades for OS Interfaces
C++ wrapper and OO abstraction，facade pattern
a. Concurrency and synchronization components
b. IPC and filesystem components
c. Memory management components

Frameworks
Higher-level network programming framework
a. Event demultiplexing components
b. Service initialization components
c. Service configuration components
d. Hierarchically-layered stream components
e. ORB adapter components

Distributed Services and Componnets
Standard library of distributed services
1, Factoring out reusable distributed application building blocks
2, Demonstrating common use-cases of ACE components

a. Naming Service
b. Time Service
c. Token Service
d. Server Logging Service
e. Client Logging Service
f. Logging Strategy Service

Higher-level Distributed Computing Middleware Components
Higer-level distributed computing middleware
a. The ACE ORB(TAO)
b. JAWS