Riverace Announces ACE Version 5.5 Release16 May 2006
Riverace Corporation announces the immediate availability of ACE version 5.5. This release culminates a 2-year development effort by the ACE developer community led by the Distributed Object Computing (DOC) Group at Vanderbilt University, Riverace Corporation, Remedy NL, and OCI. It features many new additions as well as support for more of today's leading-edge computing platforms. ACE 5.5 adds support for the following new computing platforms:
* AIX 5L(TM) version 5.3 using IBM XL C++ V7
* HP-UX 11iv2 on PA-RISC using HP aC++
* HP-UX 11iv2 on Integrity using HP aC++
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on both x86 and x64
* The Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS) on SPARC(R) using Sun Studio 10
* The Solaris 10 OS on x64 using Sun Studio 10
* All current platforms using GNU g++ 3.4.x
* Windows(R) XP operating system (32 and 64 bits) using Visual Studio(R)
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* Windows CE operating system version 4.2 using Visual Studio 2005
* Windows Mobile 5 using Visual Studio 2005
The new features in ACE 5.5 include an addition to the ACE Reactor framework that takes advantage of the new epoll facility in Linux. This allows Linux-based network servers to scale to many thousands of connections with much higher performance. The NEWS file inside the ACE source kit describes all additions and changes for the new version.
The ACE Version 5.5 kit is available now from the Downloads section of Riverace's web site, http://www.riverace.com, as well as the DOC group's web download area, http://deuce.doc.wustl.edu/Download.html.
ACE Helps Networked Application Developers
ACE (ADAPTIVE Communication Environment) is a C++ programming toolkit used to develop high-performance networked applications quickly across a wide range of computing platforms from embedded and handheld to supercomputer. ACE enjoys growing popularity with thousands of worldwide users and contributors to its open source code base.
Many developers find ACE after struggling with the complexities of networking APIs and being confounded by the difficulties faced when porting to new platforms. ACE offers a portable and easy-to-use set of classes and frameworks that help to master the complexities, increase systematic code reuse, and enable developers to focus on their applications' unique value and features instead of on networking and threading.
About Riverace Corporation
Riverace Corporation has been helping overworked software developers navigate the complexities of advanced networked application development since 1994. Riverace Corporation pioneered the ACE services business in 1997. Riverace is the premier world-wide service provider for the ACE C++ programming toolkit, providing technical support, training, and consulting services that help today's software developers make the most of ACE's power and flexibility.
Website: http://www.riverace.com/
Riverace Corporation
Steve Huston
President
email: shuston@riverace.com
phone: 888-384-8154
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