Adaptive Communication Environment

The Adaptive Communication Environment (often referred to as ACE) is an open source Cross-platform framework of object oriented class (computer science)es to help the development of communication software.

ACE is one of many solutions to a common problem: making easy the use of powerful but complex features of modern operating systems like inter-process communication, thread (computer science) management, efficient memory management and so on. It was developed by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at University of California, Irvine, Vanderbilt University, and Washington University, St. Louis.

ACE is written in C plus plus and runs on a wide variety of operating systems (most Unixes, Microsoft Windows various versions, real-time systems like VxWorks and QNX). It has enjoyed some success in the communication industry, notably for Motorola Iridium (satellite) satellites.

=See also=

*TAO (software) (The ACE ORB, a CORBA implementation) *Component-Integrated ACE ORB *ZEN ORB *JAWS - Adaptive Web Server *Communication *Natural environment

=External links=

*[http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html ACE™ Homepage] *[http://deuce.doc.wustl.edu/Download.html Download ACE] *[news:comp.soft-sys.ace Discussions] *[http://citeseer.org/csq=Adaptive+Communication+Environment Citations from CiteSeer]