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Welcome to the JinACE homepage
JinACE is a open-source implementation of a sub-set of the CORBA
Component Model (CCM) based on the ACE framework
and TAO as a CORBA ORB. The JinACE component server is designed for
high scalability and flexability.
The motivation for a component server derived from the need to
deploy standardized components, written using C++, in an ad hoc
networking environment. See
Ad Hoc
Networking Pattern Language for the main ideas behind JinACE.
CORBA Components
CORBA is a standard for distributed computing developed by the Object
Management Group (OMG). It is an open, vendor and platform
indenpendent standard with a strong industrial support.
The CORBA Component Model(CCM) extends the CORBA standard
with a component model. It is mainly addressing enterprise business
systems with its support for persistency, transactions, and
secuirty - basically the same domain as Enterprise JavaBeans.
Current research tries to prove that it can also be usable in other
domains, including embedded, real-time, and ad hoc networking. The
latter is the goal of JinACE.
You can download the CCM specification
here.
ACE and TAO
ACE is a open-source framework for communication software written
in portable C++ and available on almost every platforms. Together
with TAO (The ACE ORB), it allows to create portable, performant
and well-designed C++ programs by its rich range of classes based
on modern design patterns.
For a more in-depth overview over ACE and TAO
see.
Why JinACE
We named this project "JinACE" because it is the combination of C++
networking principles, as represented in ACE and TAO, and ad hoc
networking principles, as represented by
Jini, or its successor
JXTA.
We basically use CORBA components, defined by the CCM spec, as
entities which are transmitted and loaded on demand.
Status of the project
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Version 1.2.1 released
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- changes to work with ACE 5.4 + TAO 1.4.
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- New cartridge for Arcstyler 5.x
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Version 1.2 released
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- some changes to work with newer TAO versions (1.2.4 and later)
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Version 1.1 released
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- new exception handling (using TAO version 1.2.2 macros)
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- new example: TimerComponent
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- some improvements in code generation with ArcStyler
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- some minor bugfixes
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Version 1.0 released
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Download
JinACE is open source, read the Licence for details.
Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Version 1.2.1 for Windows and Linux:
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