Is any one familar with, or have used the ACE network library? ACE Magmai Kai Holmlor "Oh, like you''ve never written buggy code" - Lee

oops sorry i thought it was WinAce hehe,

[edited by - mickey on March 30, 2002 1:11:55 AM]

I use TAO CORBA which is built upon ACE, but thats about as far as my knowledge goes with it.

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We use it quite extensively at work, but I''ve never actually done any coding with it.

There''s actually a C++ in depth series book on how to use it.

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Original post by Martee
We use it quite extensively at work, but I''ve never actually done any coding with it.

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What? How exactly do you use it then? Ohh, _you_ haven''t but other people there have?
Is there anything in ACE for dispatching messages once they are received?

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There''s actually a C++ in depth series book on how to use it.

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Bought it Saturday, I''m almost done with it - it''s not very interesting reading, a-mon-avis.

Based off what the book goes over, there''s no message exchange framework - ACE is a façade of the various flavors of the socket libraries, and the required threading, file io, and synchronization primitives. I thought the chapter on demultiplexing was on message dispatching/demultiplexing, but it''s just about waiting on multiple events. The author seems to make a big deal out of rather basic concepts; he spent a lot of time telling trying to convince the reader that they really want to use ACE – I bought the book, I’ve obviously already convinced there’s something in it for me! None-the-less a type-safe, portable, efficient, reasonably OO socket, file, & thread library is extremely useful.

One thing that bothered me, was after all the talk about type-safety, most of the functions return a type-useless int for error codes – I was happy to see the lack of exceptions however.

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Original post by Magmai Kai Holmlor
Ohh, _you_ haven''t but other people there have?

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Exactly . Sorry if that wasn''t clear.

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Is there anything in ACE for dispatching messages once they are received?

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I don''t know, but tomorrow, I can ask some people who would know.