ACE Structure

For detailed views of ACE, please see the following:

Rational Rose Model -- Chris Eich and Tom Jordan have created a complete mapping of all ACE files into class categories.
Inheritance graph -- John Lindal has used Code Crusader to generate HTML version of the ACE inheritance graph.

ACE Directory Structure

The following describes the overall directory structure of the ACE source tree.

ace

the source code and binaries for C++ components (note that all of these are at the same "level" in order to work around deficiencies with Windows NT...)

ASX

higher-level network programming framework based on a user-level C++ implementation of System V STREAMs

Collections

stacks, sets, strings, etc.

Concurrency

wrappers for Solaris, POSIX, and Win32 threads

Connection

implementations of connection establishment patterns

CORBA

C++ wrappers that make it easier to work with CORBA

Debugging

C++ assert macro, dump methods, method call tracing, etc.

IPC_SAP

C++ wrappers around UNIX communication mechanisms

Addr: wrappers for various network addressing formats
DEV_SAP: wrapper for UNIX device I/O
FIFO_SAP: wrapper for FIFOS (named pipes)
FILE_SAP: wrapper for UNIX FILE *s
IO_SAP: wrapper for low-level serial-line I/O
SOCK_SAP: wrapper for BSD sockets
SPIPE_SAP: wrapper for SVR4 STREAM pipes and connld
TLI_SAP: wrapper for SVR4 TLI
UPIPE_SAP: inter-thread communication mechanism

Log_Msg

library API for local/remote logging

Memory Mem_Map wrapper for BSD mmap() memory mapped files Shared_Malloc shared memory malloc/free classes Shared_Memory wrapper for SysV/BSD shared memory

Misc

miscellaneous C++ wrappers for the GNU getopt utility, Obstacks, GoF-style patterns

Name_Service

client-side classes for distributed name service

OS

encapsulation of UNIX and Win32 OS APIs

Reactor and Proactor

a framework for OO event demultiplexing and event handler dispatching

Service_Configurator

a framework for dynamically linking/unlinking services into/from applications at run-time

System V IPC SV_Message_Queues wrapper for SysV message queues SV_Semaphores wrapper for SysV semaphores SV_Shared_Memory wrapper for SysV shared memory

Timers

High resolution timers, profile timers, and various timer queues

Token_Service

client-side classes for distributed locking

apps

complete applications written using the ACE wrappers

Gateway: application-level gateway
gperf: a perfect hash function generator program written in C++
JAWS: high-performance Web server
Orbix-Examples: examples of how to integrate Orbix with ACE
Synch-Benchmarks: benchmarks for OS IPC and synchronization mechanisms

bin

utility programs for building this release, in particular, a set of scripts for automatically generating manual pages from C++ class headers

examples

programs that illustrate how to use ACE components

netsvcs

network services

clients

test programs that exercise the ACE network services

lib

network services implemented using the general ACE service framework:

Client Logger: client-side for distributed logging service
Server Logger: server-side for distributed logging service
Name Server: a distributed name service
Token Server: a distributed token service
Time Server: a distributed time service

servers

dynamically linkable main programs that configure the services

tests

a suite of automated regression tests to exercise all ACE features

ASNMP

An ACE version of the HP SNMP++ library

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Last modified 11:32:55 CDT 09 October 2006