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diff --git a/PACE/docs/www/PACE-overview.html b/PACE/docs/www/PACE-overview.html deleted file mode 100644 index 33c8398400b..00000000000 --- a/PACE/docs/www/PACE-overview.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,229 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> -<!-- $Id$ --> -<html> - <head> - <title>PACE Overview</title> - </head> - - <body text=#000000 vlink=#cc000000 link=#0000ff bgColor=#ffffff> - - <table align=center width=640 border=0 cellpadding=6 cellspacing=0> - <tr> - <td><hr></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <table border=0 cellspacing=20> - <tr> - <td> - <p align=right> - <a href=PACE.html> - <img alt=Click-Me-To-Go-Home - border=0 - src=Pix/PACE-mini-logo.gif> - </a> - </p> - </td> - <td> - <table cellspacing=10> - <tr> - <td align=center><a href=PACE-overview.html>PACE Overview</a></td> - <td align=center><a href=PACE-obtain.html>PACE Obtain</a></td> - <td align=center><a href=PACE-docs.html>PACE Documentation</a></td> - </tr> - </table> - </td> - <td> - <p align=right> - <a href=PACE.html> - <img alt=Click-Me-To-Go-Home - border=0 - src=Pix/PACE-mini-logo.gif> - </a> - </p> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <hr> - <h2>PACE Overview</h2> - <p>PACE is an OS abstraction layer designed for lightweight - and/or verified systems.</p> - - <p>It offers these benefits:</p> - <ul> - <li> - <p>A strict POSIX.1-like, low-level interface. Its - interface is "POSIX compatible"; by that we mean as - close to POSIX.1 as it can be, given that PACE is not - an operating system. And, to avoid name conflicts with - OS APIs, all low-level PACE function names have - the <i><b>pace_</b></i> prefix. - </p> - <li> - <p>The low-level interface is a C file, so that it can be - used in both C and C++ programs. - </p> - <li> - <p>The low-level interface is partitioned into multiple - files, one per POSIX.1 section. - </p> - </li> - </ul> - - <hr> - - <h2>ACE uses PACE</h2> - <p>The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html">(ACE)</a> - is a freely available, open-source, object-oriented - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/courses.html">(OO)</a> - framework that implements many core design patterns for - concurrent communication software. - </p> - - <p>ACE is currently built on an - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html"> - OS Adaptation Layer</a> that abstracts away specific - computer architecture / platform dependencies therfore - allowing ACE to be portable across any platform that the - adaptation layer supports. - </p> - - <p>ACE also forms the foundation upon which - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html">TAO</a> - is built. The combination of implementing TAO (adding - specific functionality to ACE) and the ever shifting sands - of vendor-specific operating systems has grown the ACE - adapatation layer from a small core of critial functions to - over 30,000 lines of interdependent code. The development of - TAO tied in with requests from our sponsors as well as - suggestions from the development community at large - contributed to our decision to re-engineer ACE' adaptation - layer. PACE is one part of this effort. - </p> - - <hr> - - <h2>PACE Objectives</h2> - <p>Some objectives of this phase of ACE' development (PACE) - include: - </p> - <ul> - <li> - <p><b>ACE Developers:</b> Make the low level abstraction - layer code more maintainable.<br> - <i>(reduce file size and file interdependence - improve - code modularity)</i> - </p> - </li> - <li> - <p><b>ACE Users:</b> Reduce ACE' footprint.<br> - <i>(this is not a one-step task by any stretch of the - imagination, but we will begin breaking out the code - into separate files - allowing developers the - opportunity option to compile and link specific - object files to their executables instead of the - entire ACE adaptation layer library)</i> - </p> - </li> - <li> - <p><b>ACE Users:</b> Update the adaptation layer to be - POSIX compliant.<br> - <i>(see next)</i> - </p> - </li> - <li> - <p><b>ACE Users:</b> Split the adaptation layer to support - both a <b>C</b> API (PACE) as well as a set of - <b>C++</b> wrapper classes (ACE_OS) allowing - <i><b>both C & C++</b></i> developers to call - directly into the low level API.<br> - <i>(encapslate POSIX and system calls in <b>C</b> - wrappers and re-write the (ACE_OS) adaptation layer to - transparently call into the POSIX emulation API - (PACE))</i> - </p> - </li> - <li> - <p><b>ACE Users:</b> ACE will not change its public - interface, it will only add low level <b>C</b> - operations to its repertoire. As is obvious, software - built on this adaptation layer is portable across the - various platforms that ACE supports. This provides - backward compatilibity for people already using the - current <b>C++</b> (ACE_OS) adaptation layer of - ACE.</p> - </li> - </ul> - - <p>This is an open-source project maintained by: - <ul> - <li><a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt"> - Dr. Douglas Schmidt</a> of the - <a href="http://www.cs.uci.edu/"> - University of California - Irvine</a> - </li> - <li><A href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~cyron"> - Dr. Ron Cytron</a> of - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/"> - Washington University - St. Louis</a> - </li> - <li>their respective sister - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~doc"> - <b><font color=red>D</font></b>istributed - <b><font color=red>O</font></b>bject - <b><font color=red>C</font></b>omputing</a> - research groups. - </li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td> - <hr> - <p>Additional information regarding - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html">ACE</a> - and - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~luther/PACE">PACE</a> - and - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html">TAO</A> - is available as well as a - <a href="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-obtain.html"> - full source distribution</a> of TAO + ACE + PACE. - </p> - - <p>If you have any questions, suggestions or contributions - regarding PACE, please - <a href="mailto:pace-users@cs.wustl.edu">write</a> - to us or subscribe to the pace-users mailing list - (send email to - <a href="mailto:majordomo@cs.wustl.edu"> - majordomo@cs.wustl.edu</a> - with <b>"subscribe pace-users"</b> in the <i>body</i>, - not the subject line ;-) - </p> - - <hr> - - <!-- email --> - <font face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica size=2> - <p align=center><a href="mailto:doc_group@cs.wustl.edu"> - Doc Group</a></p> - - <!-- last modified tag --> - <p align=center> - <!-- Created: Fri May 4 20:13:27 CDT 2001 --> - <!-- hhmts start --> -Last modified: Sun May 13 14:45:55 CDT 2001 -<!-- hhmts end --> - </p></font> - </td> - </tr> - </table> - - </body> -</html> |