ACE Programmer's Guide: Practical Design Patterns for Network and System Programming

Author: (USA) Johnson et al. / Madhavan
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: Portable, Flexible, Scalable, Predictable, Reliable, Affordable—If you are designing software and systems with these qualities, this book and the ACE Toolkit will make you more effective in all these aspects. Even after spending over ten years developing ACE and using it to build many networked software applications, I found I still learned a lot from this book. I firmly believe you will too.—Douglas C. Schmidt, the inventor of ACE, as quoted from the Preface of this book This is the book for every ACE programmer. For beginners, this book explains the basics of ACE in a step-by-step manner. For more experienced programmers, it provides detailed explanations of features used daily, and it also serves as a perfect reference manual. If this book had been published a few years earlier, I would have saved a lot of time!—Johnny Willemsen, Senior Software Engineer at RemedyIT in the Netherlands After having a large C codebase, we rely on ACE to build cross-platform client-server frameworks to ensure data quality and integrity. ACE has improved our design, eliminated OS-specific behaviors, and yet did not sacrifice performance or flexibility. For us, ACE's online documentation and the printed "big picture" guide are indispensable assistants, and on my office bookshelf, this book takes the priority position.—John Lilley, Chief Scientist at DataLever Corporation In the SITA air-land department, we are one of the main suppliers providing communication services to airlines. We started using ACE about a year ago and are now moving most of our new communication-related development work to ACE. It can be said that this toolkit reduces development and testing time by at least 50% when developing applications of this type.—Jean Millo, Senior Architect at SITA This book is written by several core developers of ACE, explaining quickly and directly how to make the most of ACE. Starting with an introduction to ACE, it progresses step by step, discussing in detail ACE's IPC facilities, process and thread management, and advanced topics such as shared memory, the ACEStreams framework, the ACEServiceConfigurator framework, timer management classes, the ACENamingService, and more. Throughout the book, the authors provide many source code examples, using a comprehensive ACE application example throughout the book to show readers how to apply various key patterns and design principles to successfully develop object-oriented networked software. By studying this book, you will be able to better design and implement performance-driven, market-unavailable networked software, always staying ahead in the competition.