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diff --git a/TAO/README b/TAO/README deleted file mode 100644 index 65ad882dba2..00000000000 --- a/TAO/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,76 +0,0 @@ -Welcome to the alpha release of The ACE ORB (TAO). TAO is an -implementation of a CORBA2-compliant ORB that supports real-time -extensions. Please see http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html for -more information on TAO. - -Some detailed information on this version of TAO is available in the -'docs' subdirectory in HTML format. - -The current alpha release of TAO contains the following: - - * An ORB Core based on ACE C++ components. This ORB Core provides 3 - concurrency models: (1) Reactive, (2) Thread-per-Connection, - and (3) Thread-per-Rate (which is optimized for certain types - of deterministic real-time systems). - - * A highly optimized version of the SunSoft IIOP protocol - interpreter; - - * An prototype implementation of the Portable Object Adapter - (POA) specification. - - * A prototype IDL compiler, based on the SunSoft IDL compiler. This - IDL compiler generates stubs and skeletons that utilize the - SunSoft IIOP protocol interpreter. - - * Various tests illustrating how to use TAO. - -The current version of TAO contains source code and tests that are -around 0.4 Megabytes when compressed using GNU gzip. - -We've gotten TAO to interoperate with other ORBs (e.g., Orbix and -Visigenic), so we're confident that the implementation of IIOP is -robust. We're currently working on the following features for TAO: - - * A complete POA implementation. - - * An IDL compiler that generates optimized compiled stubs and - skeletons. For this, we're planning to use the Flick IDL - compiler from University of Utah. - - * A highly extensible, highly optimized set of request - demultiplexing strategies that provide constant time lookup of - servants based on object keys and operation names contained in - CORBA requests. - - * A Real-time Scheduling Service that determines the priority at - which Client requests are dispatched by the ORB. - - * A Real-time Event Service that dispatches CORBA events in - real-time. - - * Implementations of the CORBA COS Naming service and Trader - service. - -We plan to release these features throughout the fall of 1997. You can -keep track of our progress online. - -Please feel free to experiment with, dissect, repair, use, etc., TAO. -We gratefully accept bug reports, appreciate bug fixes/enhancements, -and will strive to integrate correct bug fixes quickly! - -If you have any questions, please post them to the ACE mailing list -<ace-users@cs.wustl.edu> until we get a TAO mailing list established. - -A quick build note for users who have used ACE with other ORBs: -linking TAO with a version of ACE that must also be linked against -another ORB vendor's library, e.g., liborbix.so, will produce -undefined and most likely unpredictable and erroneous results. - -If you have any questions, please post them to the ACE mailing list -(ace-users@cs.wustl.edu) until we get a TAO mailing list established. - -Thanks, - - Douglas C. Schmidt - schmidt@cs.wustl.edu |