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diff --git a/java/JACE/overview.html b/java/JACE/overview.html deleted file mode 100644 index a0c2fdabd73..00000000000 --- a/java/JACE/overview.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,84 +0,0 @@ -<!-- $Id$ --> -<HTML> -<BODY> -Java ACE is a collection of Java packages containing classes that have been -converted from the C++ version of the -<A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html">ADAPTIVE Communication -Environment</A> (ACE). -<P> -The C++ version of ACE is a large object-oriented network programming toolkit -which contains over 125,000 lines of C++ code and uses advanced C++ features -like templates. -</P> -<P>The goal of converting ACE from C++ to Java is to provide a portable -programming toolkit with a similar interface and functionality to the original - version of ACE. This allows new and current users of C++ ACE an easy transition -to Java and also adds significant value to programming concurrent Java -networking applications. Note that applications written using Java ACE can -communicate seamlessly over sockets with applications written using C++ ACE. -</P> -<P> -The following diagram illustrates the architecture of the Java version of ACE: -</P> - -<P ALIGN="CENTER"> -<IMG SRC="images/java-ace.gif" WIDTH="735" HEIGHT="339" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0"> -</P> - -<P> -The Java ACE architecture has fewer components than the diagram illustrating -the architecture for the -<A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html">C++ version -of ACE </A>. This reduction in size occurs for two reasons. First, the Java -Virtual Machine (JVM) handles many of the portability issues provided by C++ -ACE. Therefore, the OS adaptation layer is unnecessary. Second, -Java doesn't support certain OS features provided by Win32, UNIX, and other -OS platforms that C++ ACE is ported to. For example, Java doesn't support -shared memory and memory-mapped files and therefore the memory management -wrappers (such as <CODE>Mem_Map</CODE> and <CODE>Shared_Malloc</CODE>) are -omitted from Java ACE. -</P> - -<P> -The process of converting ACE from C++ to Java provided us with an excellent -source of insights on the strengths and weaknesses of using Java for -industrial-strength software system frameworks. We've written a paper -documenting our -<A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/C++2java.html">experiences</A> -converting the C++ version of ACE to Java. -</P> - -<H3>Copyright Information for Java ACE</H3> - -<P> -Java ACE is copyrighted by -<A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt">Douglas C. Schmidt</A> and his -research group at -<A HREF="http://www.wustl.edu">Washington University</A>. -You are free to do anything you like with the Java ACE source code such -as including it in commercial software, as long as you include this copyright -statement along with code built using Java ACE. -</P> -<P> -You are under no obligation to freely redistribute any of your source -code that is built using Java ACE. Please note, however, that you may -not do anything to the Java ACE code that will prevent it from being -distributed freely (such as copyrighting it yourself). Naturally, I am not -responsible for any problems caused by using Java ACE. -</P> -<P> -My goal is to see Java ACE continue to evolve and become a more -comprehensive, robust, and well-documented Java toolkit that is freely -available to researchers and developers. If you have any -improvements, suggestions, and or comments, I'd like to hear about it. -</P> -<P> -Thanks, -</P> -<P> -Douglas C. Schmidt -<BR> -<A HREF="mailto@schmidt@cs.wustl.edu">schmidt@cs.wustl.edu</A> -</P> -</BODY> -</HTML> |