Kokyu is a portable middleware scheduling framework designed to provide flexible scheduling and dispatching services within the context of higher-level middleware. Kokyu currently provides real-time scheduling and dispatching services for TAO's real-time Event Service which mediates supplier-consumer relationships between application operations. Kokyu also provides a scheduling and dispatching framework for threads. This is being used by the TAO RTCORBA 1.2 scheduler implementations. For more information, see ACE_wrappers/Kokyu/docs/Kokyu.html To build Kokyu on Unix systems, from under $ACE_ROOT/Kokyu do make To build Kokyu on Windows, open the workspace $ACE_ROOT/Kokyu/Kokyu.dsw and build it. An mpc file has also been provided - $ACE_ROOT/Kokyu/Kokyu.mpc from which IDE specific build files can be generated.