ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACE and TAO have been deeply influenced and improved by the following members of my research group at Washington University and at the University of California at Irvine. Everett Anderson Alexander Babu Arulanthu Shawn Atkins Matt Braun Darrell Brunsch Chris Cleeland Angelo Corsaro Mayur Deshpande Eric Ding Sergio Flores-Gaitan Chris Gill Andrew G. Gilpin Aniruddha Gokhale Priyanka Gontla Pradeep Gore Shawn Hannan Tim Harrison John Heitmann James Hu Prashant Jain Vishal Kachroo Michael Kircher Yamuna Krishnamurthy Fred Kuhns David Levine Mike Moran Sumedh Mungee Balachandran Natarajan Kirthika Parameswaran Krishnakumar Pathayapura Carlos O'Ryan Ossama Othman Jeff Parsons Irfan Pyarali Marina Spivak Venkita Subramonian Nagarajan Surendran Nanbor Wang Seth Widoff Torben Worm I would also like to thank all the following people who have also contributed to ACE and TAO over the years: Paul Stephenson Olaf Kruger Ed Brown Lee Baker Alex Ranous Mark Patton Steffen Winther Sorensen Troy Warner Stacy Mahlon Charles Eads Mark Frutig Todd Hoff George Brad Needham Leslee Xu Detlef Becker Bruce Worden Chris Tarr Bill Sears Greg Lavender Steve Warwick Mats Sundvall Andreas Ueltschi Nigel Hooke Medhi Tabatabai Stuart Powell Bin Mu Andrew McGowan Ken Konecki John P. 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Shwaika Gerhard Voss Gregor Bruce Ian Cahoon Alexei I. Adamovich Sohail Husain Jerome Julius William R Volz Koushik Banerjee Zoran Cetusic Patrick Bennett Felix Wyss Tim Rydell Petr Shelomovsky Juliana Diniz I would particularly like to thank Paul Stephenson, who worked with me at Ericsson in the early 1990's. Paul devised the recursive Makefile scheme that underlies this distribution and also spent countless hours with me discussing object-oriented techniques for developing distributed application frameworks. Finally, I'd also like to thank Todd L. Montgomery , fellow heavy metal head, for fulfilling his quest to get ACE to compile with GCC! In conclusion, our goal is to see ACE+TAO continue to evolve and become a more comprehensive, robust, and well-documented C++ class library that is freely available to researchers and developers. If you have any improvements, suggestions, and or comments, we'd like to hear about it. Please see the instructions in $ACE_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM $TAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM for instructions on submitting suggestions or fixes. Thanks, Douglas C. Schmidt schmidt@uci.edu