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ACE And TAOACE And TAOFurthermore a HOWTO is available here: http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/~pissaris/projects/ocean/howto/
Panagiotis Issaris
UPDATE: The TAO to RTAI port is now hosted on SourceForge at http://tao-ocean-dcrf.sourceforge.net/ Source code is available in CVS and a first release is available for you to try out.
(from the mailinglist archive)
Dear RTAI community members,
The Ocean (Open Controller Enabled by an Advanced Realtime Network) [1] consortium has decided to sponsor OCI ( Object Computing Inc) [2] one man month of porting ACE (Adaptive Communication Environment) [3] and TAO (The Ace Orb) [4] to the RTAI/LXRT platform [5].
Ocean is a European IST sponsored consortium composed of industrial partners and universities, which aims to specify and develop an open 'distributed control' reference framework for use in industrial machines. The reference framework will be made available under the LGPL licence. The specifications will be open and free to the public.
ACE is a mature and well known C++ abstraction layer for operating systems and communication. It currently supports many os'es such as QNX, VxWorks, FreeBSD, GNU/Linux and many more [6]. TAO is a RealTime-CORBA ORB implementation based entirely on ACE. It brings realtime communication to object and component based software systems. Both are available with free licenses.
The results of this investment will be made available to the community. Several universities have committed to maintain and finalise the port after the sponsored initial work is finished. Of course, anyone is free to use and contribute to the software.
If you or your company have particular interest in ACE or TAO functionality in RTAI and wish to prioritize it in the porting effort, you can extend the porting effort with a donation. Interested parties can contact peter.soetens at mech.kuleuven.ac.be for further information.
Peter Soetens.