TY - BOOK AU - Huston Stephen D TI - The Ace Programmer's Guide : : practical design patterns for network and systems programming SN - 9780201699715 U1 - 005.117 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston PB - Addison Welsley KW - Computer Software Development N1 - Bib and Ref N2 - The Adaptive Communication Framework (ACE) is an open-source software tookit created to solve network programming challenges. [This book] is a practical, hands-on guide to ACE for C++ programmers building networked applications and next-generation middleware. The book first introduces ACE to beginners. It then explains how you can tap design patterns, frameworks, and ACE to produce effective, easily maintained software systems with less time and effort. The book features discussions of programming aids, interprocess communication (IPC) issues, process and thread management, shared memory, the ACE service configurator framework, timer management classes, the ACE naming service, and more.-Back cover ER -