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+Release Information for the Component Integrated ACE ORB (CIAO)</h3></center>
+This document contains information on the following topics related to the
+<a href="../../VERSION">current
+release</a> of <a href="http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CIAO">CIAO</a>:
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+<ul>
+<li>
+<a href="../index.html">Introduction</a></li>
+<li>
+<a href="#status">Current Status of CIAO</a></li>
+<li>
+<a href="dance.html">Status of DAnCE</a></li>
+<li>
+<a href="../TODO.html">TODO list</a></li>
+</ul>
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+<hr>
+<h2>Current Status</h2><a name="status">
+<ol>
+<li>The first cut of the new <a
+ href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/2003-07-02"> DnC </a>
+ specification implementation, which we call DAnCE is available in
+ this distribution. DAnCE is housed under <CODE> $CIAO_ROOT
+ </CODE>. We plan to enhance DAnCE in the next few months. We believe
+ DAnCE will replace existing tool sets in <CODE>
+ $CIAO_ROOT/tools</CODE>. There are a few features in
+ <CODE>$CIAO_ROOT/tools</CODE> that are missing in the DAnCE
+ implementation. Please see <a href="../TODO.html"> TODO </a> file
+ for more details. We plan to implement them soon and use DAnCE
+ continuously.
+
+ <li> The first cut of DAnCE includes two parts:
+ <ul>
+ <li>
+ A modeling tool chain , <a href="http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CoSMIC/">
+ CoSMIC</a>, which is capable of describing the Assembly/Component
+ using <a
+ href="http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/Projects/gme/default.html">
+ GME</a> as the development bed. The artifacts generated from the
+ CoSMIC are a set of XML descriptors.
+
+ <!-- Tao, I realy don't understand what this means - Bala -->
+ <li>This run-time infrastructure that performs the actual deployment
+ and configuration, with a superset of the capabilities described in
+ OMG DnC specification with CIAO extension. </a>.<p><p>
+
+ </ul>
+ <!-- Tao, can you please see whether this is needed -->
+ In the new DnC run-time framework we have migrated all the
+ functionalities present in the old CIAO runtime except the
+ Real-Time configuration and Static Configuration, which are
+ developed by Washington University in St. Louis. Currently,
+ the two CIAO runtime co-exist in our source and the component
+ implementation could be used with both framework without much
+ change. (For the change that one has to go through please
+ read <a href="./switch.html">this</a>.)<p>
+
+
+
+ <li> Two operations <CODE> ciao_preactivate ()</CODE> and
+ <CODE>ciao_postactivate ()</CODE> have been added to the
+ <CODE>SessionComponent</CODE> interface. This implies that component
+ developers have to implement those operations within the
+ executor. We plan to get around this, i.e., users having to
+ implement these two operations, in the next month or so. <p>
+
+ <li> The CIDL Compiler has been eliminated, all CIAO code is now
+ generated by the IDL compiler.<p>
+
+ <li> CIAO doesn't yet support features that help integrating CORBA
+ components with Enterprise Java Beans (EJB).<p>
+
+ <li> Test to demonstrate composition of applications with real-time
+ behavior using CIAO's real-time extension was added. Please see
+ ACE_wrappers/TAO/CIAO/tests/RTCCM/Priority_Test.<p>
+
+ <li> The CIAO static configurator tool has been enhanced to support
+ processing of RTCORBA policy related information. Please see
+ ACE_wrappers/TAO/CIAO/docs/static_ciao_index.html.<p>
+
+ <li> To further interoperability with non-component-aware clients, there
+ are files in the $CIAO_ROOT/tools/IDL3_to_IDL2 directory that can be
+ compiled into an executable called tao_idl3_to_idl2. This executable
+ takes an IDL file (on the command line) containing IDL3 declarations
+ and outputs an IDL file with the IDL3 declarations converted to
+ equivalent IDL2. IDL2 declarations in the input file are unchanged.
+ See the README file in that directory for more information.<p>
+
+</ol>
+
+
+
+<b>Email: </b><a href="mailto:"</a<ADDRESS>ciao-users@cse.wustl.edu</ADDRESS>
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