Appendix B. The Past, Present, and Future of ACE
Synopsis
This appendix presents a brief history of ACE that explains its inception and open-source evolution over the past decade. We then outline the standards-based middleware based on—and bundled with—ACE. We close by discussing where we see ACE heading in the future.
B.1 The Evolution of ACE
Eric Raymond, a pioneer of the open-source movement [O'R98], is fond of saying that "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch" [Ray01]. While this isn't always the case, it certainly applies to ACE. This section describes the evolution of ACE—from its origins as a tool to simplify the life of a single researcher to one of the most portable and widely used C++ network ...
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