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+[An HTML version of this README file is available at the following URL
+
+http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html.
+
+All software and documentation is available via both anonymous ftp and
+the World Wide Web.]
+
+THE ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT (ACE)
+
+An Object-Oriented Network Programming Toolkit
+
+OVERVIEW OF ACE
+
+The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is a freely available
+object-oriented network programming toolkit targeted for developers of
+high-performance concurrent network applications and services.  ACE
+encapsulates the following user-level UNIX and Win32 (Windows NT and
+Windows '95) OS facilities via portable, type-secure, C++ interfaces:
+
+        . IPC mechanisms 
+                -- Internet- and UNIX-domain sockets, TLI, Named Pipes
+                   (for UNIX and Win32) and STREAM pipes
+
+        . Event multiplexing
+                -- select(), poll(), and Win32 WaitForMultipleObjects
+		   and I/O completion ports
+
+        . Multi-threading and synchronization
+                -- Solaris threads, POSIX Pthreads, and Win32 threads
+
+        . Explicit dynamic linking
+                -- dlopen/dlsym on UNIX and LoadLibrary/GetProc on Win32
+
+        . Memory-mapped files and shared memory management
+		-- BSD mmap(), SYSV shared memory, and Win32 shared memory.
+
+        . System V IPC 
+                -- shared memory, semaphores, message queues
+
+        . Sun RPC 
+                -- GNU rpc++, written by Michael Lipp
+
+In addition, ACE contains a higher-level network programming framework
+that integrates and enhances the lower-level C++ wrappers.  This
+framework supports the dynamic configuration of concurrent network
+daemons composed of application services.  This framework contains the
+following class categories:
+
+        . The Reactor
+		-- Supports both Reactive and Proactive I/O
+
+        . The Service Configurator
+		-- Support dynamic configuration of objects
+
+        . The ADAPTIVE Service Executive
+		-- A user-level implementation of System V STREAMS,
+		   which supports modular integration of 
+		   hierarchically-related communicaion services.
+
+	. Shared malloc 
+		-- A component for managing dynamically allocation
+		   shared and local memory
+
+	. Concurrency services 
+		-- e.g., various forms of higher-level concurrency control 
+		   and synchronization mechanisms 
+
+	. Network services 
+		-- e.g., distributed lock service, distributed naming
+		   service, distributed logging service, distributed
+		   routing service, and distributed time service
+
+	. CORBA integration 
+		-- Integrates ACE with CORBA implementations 
+		   (such as single-threaded and multi-threaded Orbix)
+
+ACE is currently being used in many commercial products including the
+Bellcore Q.port ATM signaling software product, the Ericsson EOS
+family of telecom switch monitoring applications, the Motorola Iridium
+global mobile communications system, and enterprise-wide electronic
+medical imaging systems for Kodak Health Imaging Systems and Siemens
+medical engineering.
+
+OBTAINING ACE
+
+The current ACE release is provided as a tar file that is slightly
+larger than 1.5 Meg compressed using GNU gzip.  ACE may be obtained
+electronically from http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-obtain.html.
+This release contains contains the source code, test drivers, and
+example applications for C++ wrapper libraries and the higher-level
+ACE network programming framework developed as part of the ADAPTIVE
+project at the University of California, Irvine and at Washington
+University.
+
+ACE DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
+
+The following subdirectories are included in C++_wrappers.tar.gz file:
+
+        . ace  -- the source code and binaries for C++ components (note that
+                  all of these are at the same "level" in order to work around
+                  deficiencies with Windows NT...)
+                . ASX -- higher-level C++ network programming
+                        framework based on System V STREAMs
+                . Collections -- stacks, sets, strings, etc.
+                . Concurrency -- wrappers for Solaris, POSIX, and Win32 threads
+                . Connection -- implementations of connection
+                        establishment patterns 
+                . CORBA -- C++ wrappers that make it easier to work with CORBA
+                . Debugging -- C++ assert macro, dump methods, method call tracing, etc.
+                . IPC_SAP -- C++ wrappers around UNIX communication mechanisms
+                        . Addr -- wrappers for various network addressing formats
+                        . DEV_SAP -- wrapper for UNIX device I/O
+                        . FIFO_SAP -- wrapper for FIFOS (named pipes)
+                        . FILE_SAP -- wrapper for UNIX FILE *s
+                        . IO_SAP -- wrapper for low-level serial-line I/O
+                        . SOCK_SAP -- wrapper for BSD sockets
+                        . SPIPE_SAP -- wrapper for SVR4 STREAM pipes and connld 
+                        . TLI_SAP -- wrapper for SVR4 TLI 
+        .               . UPIPE_SAP -- inter-thread communication mechanism
+                . Log_Msg -- library API for local/remote logging
+                . Memory
+                        . Mem_Map -- wrapper for BSD mmap() memory mapped files 
+                        . Shared_Malloc -- shared memory malloc/free classes
+                        . Shared_Memory -- wrapper for SysV/BSD shared memory
+                . Misc -- miscellaneous C++ wrappers for the GNU getopt utility,
+                        Obstacks, GoF-style patterns
+		. Name_Service -- client-side classes for distributed name service
+                . OS -- encapsulation of UNIX and Win32 OS APIs
+                . Reactor -- a framework for OO event demultiplexing and
+                        event handler dispatching 
+                . Service_Configurator -- a framework for dynamically
+                        linking/unlinking services into/from applications
+                        at run-time
+                . System V IPC
+                        . SV_Message_Queues -- wrapper for SysV message queues
+                        . SV_Semaphores -- wrapper for SysV semaphores
+                        . SV_Shared_Memory -- wrapper for SysV shared memory
+                . Timers -- High resolution timers and profile timers
+		. Token_Service -- client-side classes for distributed locking
+        . apps    -- Several example applications written using the ACE wrappers
+                . Gateway -- application-level gateway
+                . Orbix-Examples -- examples of how to integrate Orbix with ACE
+		. gperf -- a perfect hash function generator program written in C++
+		. Synch-Benchmarks -- benchmarks for OS IPC and synchronization mechanisms
+        . bin     -- utility programs for building this release, in
+                     particular, a set of scripts for automatically
+                     generating manual pages from C++ class headers.
+        . examples -- programs that illustrate how to use ACE components
+        . man   -- manual pages for ACE in nroff and HTML format
+                   generated automatically by OSE class2man
+	. netsvcs -- network services
+		. clients -- test programs that exercise the ACE network services
+		. lib -- network services implemented using the general ACE service
+		 	 framework:
+	                . Client Logger -- client-side for distributed logging service
+	                . Server Logger -- server-side for distributed logging service
+	                . Name Server -- a distributed name service
+	                . Token Server -- a distributed token service
+	                . Time Server -- a distributed time service
+		. servers -- dynamically linkable main programs that 
+			configure the services
+        . rpc++ -- C++ interface to Sun RPC developed by Michael Lipp
+                   (mnl@dtro.e-technik.th-darmstadt.de).  This code
+                   is distributed "as is" (under the GNU GPL) and is 
+                   not part of the ACE release that I maintain.
+        . tests -- a suite of automated regression tests to exercise ACE features
+
+ACE DOCUMENTATION AND TUTORIALS
+
+Many of the C++ wrappers and higher-level components have been
+described in issues of the C++ Report, as well as in proceedings of
+the following journals, conferences, and workshops:
+
+        . 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Reuse in
+          Orlando, Florida, April 1996.
+        . The SIGS OOP conference in Munich, Germany, February, 1996
+        . The OOPSLA '95 conference in Austin, TX, October 1995
+        . The ECOOP '95 conference in Aarhus, Denmark, June 1995
+        . The SIGS Object Expo conference in New York, NY, June, 1995
+        . The 1st USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies
+                in Monterey, CA, June, 1995
+        . The SIGS OOP conference in Munich, Germany, February, 1995
+        . The Winter USENIX General Conference in January, 1995
+        . 3rd SIGS C++ World conference in November, 1994
+        . The 9th ACM OOPSLA Conference held in October, 1994 
+        . The 1st Conference on the Pattern Languages of Programs, 
+                August, 1994
+        . The 6th USENIX C++ Conference, April, 1994
+        . The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Configurable Distributed
+                Systems, March, 1994
+        . The 11th and 12th Annual Sun Users Group Conference in
+                December, 1993 and June, 1994 
+        . The 2nd SIGS C++ World conference, October, 1993
+        . IEE Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, December 1994.
+
+A collection of white papers and tutorial handouts are included with
+the release.  The documentation is stored in the ACE-documentation
+directory on wuarchive.wustl.edu (approximately 4 meg compressed).
+
+This directory contains postscript versions of various papers that
+describe different aspects of ACE.  You might want to read SUG-94.ps
+first, since it gives an overview of the toolkit.
+
+Document                Published in or presented at
+--------                ----------------------------
+Acceptor-Connector.ps   "Acceptor and Connector: Design Patterns for
+			Actively and Passively Initializing Network
+			Services." Presented at the EuroPLoP
+			workshop held in conjunction with the ECOOP
+			'95 conference, August 1995 
+
+ACE-concurrency.ps	"An OO Encapsulation of Lightweight OS
+			Concurrency Mechanisms in the ACE Toolkit."
+			Washington University technical report WUCS-95-31. 
+
+ACT.ps			"Asynchronous Completion Token" submitted to
+			the ``3rd Pattern Languages of Programs
+			conference,'' Allerton Park, Illinois,
+			September, 1996. 
+
+Active-Objects.ps	"Active Object: an Object Behavioral Pattern
+			for Concurrent Programming," the proceedings
+			of the Pattern Languages of Programs Conference,
+			September 1995 
+
+Atomic_Op-94.ps		"Transparently Parameterizing Synchronization
+			into a Concurrent Distributed Application",
+			C++ Report, July/August 1994 
+
+C++-report-col1.ps	C++ Report Object Interconnections Column 1
+C++-report-col2.ps	C++ Report Object Interconnections Column 2
+C++-report-col3.ps	C++ Report Object Interconnections Column 3
+C++-report-col4.ps	C++ Report Object Interconnections Column 4
+C++-report-col5.ps	C++ Report Object Interconnections Column 5
+C++-report-col6.ps	C++ Report Object Interconnections Column 6
+C++-report-col7.ps	C++ Report Object Interconnections Column 7
+
+C++-USENIX-94.ps	"ASX: an Object-Oriented Framework for
+			Developing Distributed Applications," 6th
+			USENIX C++ Conference, April 1994 
+
+C++-world-93.ps		"An Object-Oriented Framework for Developing
+			Network Server Daemons", 2nd C++ World
+			conference, Dallas, Texas, October 1993
+
+C++-wrappers.ps		"Systems Programming with C++ Wrappers:
+			Encapsulating Interprocess Communication
+			Services with Object-Oriented Interfaces", C++
+			Report, September/October 1992 
+
+CACM-95.ps		"Experience Using Design Patterns to Develop
+			Reuseable Object-Oriented Communication
+			Software," Communications of the ACM, Special
+			Issue on Object-Oriented Experiences, Vol. 38,
+			No. 10, October, 1995.
+
+COOTS-95.ps		"Object-Oriented Components for High-speed
+			Network Programming," 1st USENIX Conference on
+			Object-Oriented Technologies, April 1995.
+
+COOTS-96.ps		"Design and Performance of an Object-Oriented
+		        Framework for Electronic Medical Imaging," 
+			2nd USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented
+			Technologies, June 1996.  
+
+Connector.ps		"A Design Pattern for Actively Initializing Network
+			Services," C++ Report, January 1996
+
+daemon-design-94.ps	"A Domain Analysis of Network Daemon Design
+			Dimensions", C++ Report, March/April 1994 
+
+DC-Locking.ps		Double-Checked Locking, submitted to the ``3rd 
+			Pattern Languages of Programs conference,''
+			Allerton Park, Illinois, September, 1996.
+
+ECOOP-95.ps		"Experiences Using Design Patterns to Evolve
+			System Software Across Diverse OS Platforms,"
+			ECOOP '95 conference, August 1995
+
+External-Polymorphism.ps "External Polymorphism: an Object Structural
+			Pattern for Transparently Extending Concrete
+			Data Types," submitted to the ``3rd Pattern
+			Languages of Programs conference,''
+			Allerton Park, Illinois, September, 1996.
+
+EuroPLoP.ps		Acceptor and Connector, Design Patterns for
+			Initializing Communication Services, 
+			1st European Conference on Pattern Languages
+			of Programs, Kloster Irsee, July, 1996.
+
+IPC_SAP-92.ps		"IPC_SAP: An Object-Oriented Interface to
+			Interprocess Communication Services" C++
+			Report, November/December 1992 
+
+JPDC-96.ps		"The Performance of Alternative Threading
+			Architectures for Parallel Communication
+			Subsystems", Submitted to the Journal
+			of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
+
+PLoP-94.ps		"Reactor: An Object Behavioral Pattern for
+			Concurrent Event Demultiplexing and Event
+			Handler Dispatching," Pattern Languages of
+			Programs Conference, August 1994 
+
+PLoP-95.ps		"Half-Sync/Half-Async: A Pattern for Efficient
+			and Well-structured Concurrent I/O Systems."
+			Pattern Languages of Programs Conference,
+			September 1995 
+
+Reactor1-93.ps		"The Reactor: An Object-Oriented Interface for
+			Event-Driven UNIX I/O Multiplexing (Part 1 of
+			2)" C++ Report, February 1993 
+
+Reactor2-93.ps		"The Object-Oriented Design and Implementation
+			of the Reactor: A C++ Wrapper for UNIX I/O
+			Multiplexing (Part 2 of 2)" C++ Report,
+			September/October 1993 
+
+IWCDS.ps		"The Service Configurator Framework: An
+			Extensible Architecture for Dynamically
+			Configuring Concurrent, Multi-Service Network
+			Daemons", 2nd IEEE International Workshop on 
+			Configurable Distributed Systems, March 1994 
+
+Service-Configurator.ps "Service Configurator,"  submitted to the ``3rd 
+			Pattern Languages of Programs conference,''
+			Allerton Park, Illinois, September, 1996.
+
+SIGCOMM-95.ps		"AITPM: a Strategy for Integrating IP
+			with ATM," SIGCOMM '95, August, 1995.
+
+SIGCOMM-96.ps		"Measuring the Performance of Communication
+			Middleware on High-Speed Networks," SIGCOMM
+			'96, August, 1996.
+
+SUG-94.ps		"The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment:
+			An Object-Oriented Network Programming Toolkit 
+			for Developing Communication Software",
+			11th and 12th Sun Users Group Conference,
+			December 1993 and June 1994 
+
+TAPOS-95.ps		"A System of Reusable Design Patterns for 
+			Communication Software," The
+			Journal of Theory and Practice of Object
+			Systems Special Issue on Patterns and Pattern
+			Languages 
+
+TSS-pattern.ps		"Thread-Specific Storage: A Pattern for
+			Reducing Locking Overhead in Concurrent
+			Programs," submitted to the ``3rd Pattern
+			Languages of Programs conference,''
+			Allerton Park, Illinois, September, 1996.
+
+I update these papers periodically to reflect changes to the ACE
+architecture.  Therefore, you might want to check the date on the
+files to make sure that you have read the most recent versions of
+these papers.
+
+ACE TUTORIALS
+
+I update these papers periodically to reflect changes to the ACE
+architecture.  Therefore, you might want to check the date on the
+files to make sure that you have read the most recent versions of
+these papers.
+
+There may not be enough space on this ftp server to store the
+following tutorial handouts:
+
+OOCP-tutorial4.ps       SIGS Object Expo, June 1995.
+                        SIGS OOP '95 conference, February, 1995;
+                        USENIX Winter Conference, January 1995; 
+
+OONP-tutorial4.ps       ECOOP conference, August 1995
+                        USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies, 
+                                June 1995;
+                        3rd SIGS C++ World conference, November, 1994;
+                        9th ACM OOPSLA conference, October 1994; 
+                        6th USENIX C++ Conference, April 1994; 
+                        2nd SIGS C++ World conference, October 1993; 
+
+CORBA4.ps               "Measuring the Performance of Object-Oriented
+                        Components for High-speed Network Programming,"
+                        Object Expo, June 1995;
+                        USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented
+                                Technologies, June 1995 
+                        HP Labs, June 1995
+
+corba4.ps               "An Overview of CORBA"
+                        Washington University Distributed Operating
+                        Systems class  
+
+These handouts are available via WWW at URL:
+
+http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
+
+as at wuarchive.wustl.edu in the directory /languages/c++/ACE.
+
+BUILDING AND INSTALLING ACE
+
+Please refer to the INSTALL file for information on how to build and
+test the ACE wrappers.  The overall ACE release is very large (~1
+Meg).  Therefore, I'm sorry, but I will be unable to distribute the
+ACE wrappers via email.  The BIBLIOGRAPHY file contains information on
+where to obtain articles that describe the ACE wrappers and the
+ADAPTIVE system in more detail.
+
+The current release has been tested extensively on Sun workstations
+running Sun OS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x (on both SPARC and Intel
+platforms) using Sun C++ 4.x and GNU G++ 2.7.x.  The release has also
+been ported to SCO UNIX, HP-UX, SGI, OSF/1, AIX, Linux, Windows NT and
+Windows '95.  I expect that major portions of the release will port
+easily to other platforms.  If you can help port ACE to other
+platforms I'd appreciate it. 
+
+ACE MAILING LIST
+
+A mailing list is available for discussing bug fixes, enhancements,
+and porting issues regarding ACE.  Please send mail to me at the
+ace-users-request@cs.wustl.edu if you'd like to join the mailing list.
+
+COPYRIGHT INFORMATION FOR ACE
+
+ACE is copyrighted Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at
+Washington University.  You are free to do anything you like with the
+ACE source code such as including it in commercial software, as long
+as you include this copyright statement along with code built using
+ACE.  
+
+You are under no obligation to freely redistribute any of your source
+code that is built using ACE (be aware that rpc++ is distributed under
+the GNU GPL, which has a different copyright policy). Please note,
+however, that you may not do anything to the ACE code that will
+prevent it from being distributed freely (such as copyrighting it).
+Naturally, neither I nor my research group is responsible for any
+problems caused by using ACE.
+
+My goal is to see ACE continue to evolve and become a more
+comprehensive, robust, and well-documented C++ class library that is
+freely available to researchers and developers.  If you have any
+improvements, suggestions, and or comments, I'd like to hear about it.
+
+        Thanks,
+        
+        Douglas C. Schmidt 
+        schmidt@cs.wustl.edu 
+
+ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+        
+ACE has been deeply influenced and improved by the following members
+of my research group at Washington University:
+
+Aniruddha Gokhale <gokhale@cs.wustl.edu>
+Tim Harrison <harrison@cs.wustl.edu>
+Prashant Jain <pjain@cs.wustl.edu>
+Irfan Pyarali <ip1@cs.wustl.edu>
+David Levine <levine@cs.wustl.edu>
+
+I would also like to thank all the following people who have also
+contributed to ACE over the years:
+
+Paul Stephenson <pstephenson@objectspace.com>
+Olaf Kruger <okruger@cssc-melb.tansu.com.au>
+Ed Brown <eebrown@netcom.com>
+Lee Baker <baker@ctis.af.mil>
+Alex Ranous <ranous@nsa.hp.com>
+Mark Patton <mark_patton@tx72.mot.com>
+Steffen Winther Sorensen <sts@dad.stibo.dk> for
+Chris Cleeland <chris@milo.st-louis.mo.us>
+Tim Harrison <harrison@cs.wustl.edu>
+Troy Warner <tnw1@core01.osi.com>
+Stacy Mahlon <mcs@contour.mayo.edu>
+Charles Eads <eads@synoptics.com>
+Mark Frutig <mfrutig@fnbc.com>
+Todd Hoff <thm@ictv.com>
+George <george@truffula.fp.trw.com>
+Aniruddha Gokhale <gokhale@cs.wustl.edu>
+Irfan Pyarali <ip1@cs.wustl.edu>
+Prashant Jain <pjain@cs.wustl.edu>
+Brad Needham <bneedham@ix.netcom.com>
+Leslee Xu <lxu@ics.uci.edu>
+Alex V. Maclinovsky <alexm@teltrunk1.tait.co.nz>
+Detlef Becker <beckerd@erlh.siemens.de>
+Bruce Worden <bruce@betsy.gps.caltech.edu>
+Chris Tarr <ctarr@objectspace.co>
+Bill Sears <wsears@world.std.com>
+Greg Lavendar <g.lavender@isode.com>
+Steve Warwick <sjw@aesthetic.com>
+Mats Sundvall <sundvall@perrier.embnet.se>
+Andreas Ueltschi <Andreas.Ueltschi@ska.com>
+Nigel Hooke <n.hooke@trl.oz.au>
+Medhi Tabatabai <Mehdi.Tabatabai@ed.nce.sita.int>
+Stuart Powell <stuartp@ot.com.au>
+Bin Mu <mubin@wfg.com>
+Andrew McGowan <mcgowan@wg2.waii.com>
+Ken Konecki <kenk@wfg.com>
+John P. Hearn <jph@ccrl.nj.nec.com>
+Giang Hoang Nguyen <yang@titan.com>
+Carlos Garcia Braschi <cgarcia@caramba.tid.es>
+Jam Hamidi <jh1@osi.com>
+Eric Vaughan <evaughan@arinc.com>
+Karl-Heinz Dorn <kdorn@erlh.siemens.de>
+Steve Ritter <ritter@titan.com>
+Chandra Venkatapathy <cvenkat@develop.bsis.com>
+Matt Stevens <mstevens@kirk.softeng.infonautics.com>
+Bob Vistica <robertv@ims.com>
+David Trumble <trumble@cvg.enet.dec.com>
+John Morey <jmorey@crl.com>
+George Reynolds <george@dvcorp.com>
+Hans Rohnert <Hans.Rohnert@zfe.siemens.de>
+Alex V Maclinvosky <alexey@ace.elektra.ru>
+Todd Blanchard <tblancha@evolving.com>
+Rob Clairmont <rclairmo@bnr.ca> 
+Christian Millour <chris@etca.fr>
+Neil Cohen <nbc@metsci.com>
+Dieter Quehl <quehl@csaserv.erlh.siemens.de>
+Reginald S. Perry <perry@zso.dec.com>
+James Morris <jmorris@aurora.apana.org.au>
+Mark Seaborn <mseaborn@itthp1.comm.mot.com>
+Phil Brooks <phil_brooks@mentorg.com>
+E. Jason Scheck <jasons@ims.com>
+Daniel Proulx <daproulx@qc.bell.ca>
+Bill Tang <tang@tekats.com>
+John Huchinson <hutchiso@epi.syr.ge.com>
+Jack Erickson <jack@cibc.com>
+Byron Walton <bwalton@hughes.scg.hac.com>
+Bill Lear <rael@anarchy.cybercom.net>
+Mark Zusman <marklz@topaz.technion.ac.il>
+Aurelio Nocerino <aurelio@irsipcs2-27-le0.irsip.na.cnr.it>
+Walt Akers <akers@cebaf.gov>
+Greg Baker <GBaker@p01.az15m.iac.honeywell.com>
+Alexandre Karev <karev@vxcern.cern.ch>
+Pramod Kumar Singh <pramod@saturn.miel.mot.com> 
+Bryon Rigg <bryon_rigg@mail.telecorpsys.com>
+Brad Brown <bbrown@rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com>
+Patty Genualdi <genualdp@agcs.com>
+Eshel Liran <liran@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il> 
+Mick Adams <eeimas@eei.ericsson.se>
+Chris Eich <Chris_Eich@optilink.optilink.dsccc.com>
+Mike Flinn <mike.flinn@smtpgate.aws.waii.com>
+Audun Tornquist <Audun.Tornquist@iu.hioslo.no>
+Sandeep Joshi <sandeepj@emailbox.att.com>
+Kirk Sinnard <1764@mn.lawson.lawson.com>
+Bernd Hofner <hofner@pd.et-inf.uni-siegen.de> 
+Craig Perras <CraigP@saros.com>
+Kirk Sinnard <kirk.sinnard@lawson.com>
+Matthew Newhook <matthew@neweast.ca>
+Gerolf Wendland <wendland@hpp015.mch2.scn.de> 
+Phil Mesnier <phil@envision.com>
+Ross Dargahi <rossd@krinfo.com>
+Richard Orr <rorr@costello.den.csci.csc.com>
+Rich Ryan <rryan@mseng.kla.com>
+Jan Rychter <jwr@icm.edu.pl>
+Tom Marrs <0002104588@mcimail.com>
+Bob Olson <olson@mcs.anl.gov>
+Jean-Francois Ripouteau <Jean-Francois.Ripouteau@netsurf.org>
+Ajit Sagar <asagar@spdmail.spd.dsccc.com>
+Ashish Singhai <singhai@delirius.cs.uiuc.edu>
+David Sames <David.L.Sames.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
+Gonzalo Diethelm <gonzo@ing.puc.cl>
+Raj <raj@itd.ssb.com>
+Darrin <darrin@jeeves.net>
+Steve Weismuller <spweismu@rsoc.rockwell.com>
+Eric C. Newton <ecn@clark.net>
+Andres Kruse <kruse@cern.ch>
+Ramesh Nagabushnam <rcn@nynexst.com>
+Antonio Tortorici <antonio@rh0011.roma.tlsoft.it>
+Nigel Lowe <nigel@nt.com>
+Tom Leith <trl@icon-stl.net>
+Greg Wilson <gvw@cs.toronto.edu>
+Michael Fortinsky <mike@vocaltec.com>
+Marco Sommerau <sommerau@matisse.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
+Gary Salsbery <gsalsber@simsun.atsc.allied.com>
+Eric Beser <beser@simsun.atsc.allied.com>
+Alfred Keller <kellera@pop.eunet.ch>
+John Lu <johnlu@f1.telekurs.ch>
+James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk>
+Jesper S. M|ller <Jesper.Moller@ameridata.dk>
+Chris Lahey <clahey@ix.netcom.com>
+Michael R"uger <m_rueger@syscomp.de>
+Istvan Buki <istvan.buki@infoboard.be>
+Greg Wilson <gvwilson@vnet.ibm.com>
+Jack Erickson <jack@cibc.com>
+Garrett Conaty <gconaty@outbackinc.com>
+Brad Flood <BFLOOD@slc.unisysgsg.com>
+Marius Kjeldahl <marius@funcom.com>
+Steve Huston <shuston@ultranet.com>
+Eugene K. Plaude <jec@r-style.msk.su>
+Joseph DeAngelis <bytor@faxint.com>
+Kim Gillies <gillies@noao.edu>
+Luca Priorelli <lucapri@mbox.vol.it>
+Alan Stewart <axs2@osi.com>
+Hani Yakan <hani@i-online.com>
+William L. Gerecke <gerecke@rayva.org>
+Craig Johnston <johnston@tortilla.ds.boeing.com>
+Pierre-Yves Duval <duval@cppm.in2p3.fr>
+Rochi Febo Dommarco <rocky@alter.it>
+Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
+Scott Shupe <shupes@mitre.org>
+Chuck Gehr <gehr@sweng.stortek.com>
+Avraham Nash <Avraham_Nash@praxisint.com>
+Padhu Ramalingam <padhu@magicnet.net>
+Jay Denkberg <jay_denkberg@comverse.com>
+Ayman Farahat <afarahat@CCGATE.HAC.COM>
+Tilo Christ <christ@swl.fh-heilbronn.de>
+Ari Erev <Ari_Erev@comverse.com>
+
+I would particularly like to thank Paul Stephenson, who worked with me
+at Ericsson and is now at ObjectSpace.  Paul devised the recursive
+Makefile scheme that underlies this distribution and also spent
+countless hours with me discussing object-oriented techniques for
+developing distributed application frameworks. 
+
+Finally, I'd also like to thank Todd L. Montgomery
+<tmont@cerc.wvu.edu>, fellow heavy metal head, for fulfilling his
+quest to get ACE to compile with GCC!