The ACE ORB (TAO) is a freely available, open-source, and

standard Standard may refer to: Symbols * Colours, standards and guidons, kinds of military signs * Standard (emblem), a type of a large symbol or emblem used for identification Norms, conventions or requirements * Standard (metrology), an object th ...

s-compliant real-time

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implementation of

CORBA The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) is a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG) designed to facilitate the communication of systems that are deployed on diverse platforms. CORBA enables collaboration between s ...

based upon the

Adaptive Communication Environment The Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) is an open source software framework used for network programming. It provides a set of object-oriented C++ classes designed to help address the inherent complexities and challenges in network programmi ...

(ACE).

Availability

TAO can be downloaded from the

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and freely used and redistributed without developer or run-time licensing costs. Commercial support, documentation, training, and consulting for TAO are available from multiple vendors. Many other third-party tools and services have also been integrated with TAO. Remedy IT created an extension for TAO called TAOX11 which adds support for the IDL to

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Language Mapping to TAO. TAOX11 is available as open source product. TAO has been ported to many operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Embedded systems such as

VxWorks VxWorks is a real-time operating system (or RTOS) developed as proprietary software by Wind River Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aptiv. First released in 1987, VxWorks is designed for use in embedded systems requiring real-time, determi ...

and

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, high end systems like OpenVMS, and

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systems such as Solaris and

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References

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External links

TAO Homepage
Application programming interfaces Common Object Request Broker Architecture

Availability

See also

References

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