ACE Documentation Home

Everything you've always wanted to know about ACE, but were afraid to ask.

ACE Documentation

Overview of ACE - a high-level view.
ACE online documentation.
Translations for much of the ACE documentation.
Books on ACE.

ACE Structure

Class Categories - Listing of some of the classes in ACE.
ACE Inheritance Tree [pdf] [ps.gz]
ACE Subsets - Outline of some of our ideas for subsetting the ACE library.

Technical Papers and Tutorials

Technical Papers - Postscript versions of many ACE papers.
Tutorial on C++ Network Programming with Patterns, Frameworks, and ACE[pdf] [ps.gz]
ACE FMM - ACE "Frequently Made Mistakes"

Bug Reports

Bug Fixing Policies - Our policies for handling bug reports about ACE, TAO, and CIAO.
Bug Tracking System - Short description of our Bugzilla bug tracking system.

ACE Development

Development and Release Process - The process we use to develop and release the ACE, TAO, and CIAO software.
Overview of CVS - How to use the source control system we use for ACE, TAO, CIAO, etc.
Style Guide - How to write compliant ACE, TOA, and CIAO code.
Porting - What to do to port to a new platform.
Exception Macros - How to use the ACE TRY macros properly (note that these macros are now deprecated).
ACE developers forum in China.

Other Stuff

Lessons - Lessons we have learned while building ACE.
ACE+SSL - What is ACE+SSL and how to get it.
Symbol versioning - How to do symbol versioning with ACE+TAO.
CE-status.txt - The status of ACE on Windows CE.
ACEXML - A SAX2-based XML parser ACE uses and provides.