Table of Contents

About This Book.
Design Challenges, Middleware Solutions, and ACE.

I. OBJECT-ORIENTED NETWORK PROGRAMMING.

1. Communication Design Dimensions.
2. An Overview of the Socket API.
3. The ACE Socket Wrapper Facades.
4. Implementing the Networked Logging Service.

II. CONCURRENT OBJECT-ORIENTED NETWORK PROGRAMMING.

5. Concurrency Design Dimensions.
6. An Overview of Operating System Concurrency Mechanisms.
7. The ACE Synchronous Event Demultiplexing Wrapper Facades.
8. The ACE Process Wrapper Facades.
9. The ACE Threading Wrapper Facades.
10. The ACE Synchronization Wrapper Facades.
A Design Principles for ACE C++ Wrapper Facades.
B The Past, Present, and Future of ACE.
Glossary.