ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACE and TAO have been deeply influenced and improved by the following members of my research group at Washington University: Everett Anderson Alexander Babu Arulanthu Shawn Atkins Matt Braun Darrell Brunsch Chris Cleeland Sergio Flores-Gaitan Chris Gill Aniruddha Gokhale Pradeep Gore 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 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 for 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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Scott Evans Alex Luk Kenneth Osenbroch Jason Czavislak Alex Chachanashvili Gilbert Grosdidier James Briggs Herbert Wang Anders Olsson x Sergey Gnilitsky David Wicks Girish Birajdar Hajdukiewicz Markus Gerwin Robert I would particularly like to thank Paul Stephenson, who worked with me at Ericsson. 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, my goal is to see ACE 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, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks, Douglas C. Schmidt schmidt@cs.wustl.edu