ACE Documentation Home

ACE Documentation

• Overview of ACE - a high-level view.
• ACE online documentation.
• Books on ACE.

ACE Structure

• Class Categories - Listing of some of the classes in ACE.
• ACE Subsets - Outline of some of our ideas for subsetting the ACE library.

Technical Papers and Tutorials

• Technical Papers - Postscript versions of many ACE papers.
• Tutorial on C++ Network Programming with Patterns, Frameworks, and ACE[pdf]
• ACE FMM - ACE "Frequently Made Mistakes"

Bug Reports

• Bug Fixing Policies - Our policies for handling bug reports about ACE, TAO, and CIAO.
• Bug Tracking System - Short description of our old Bugzilla bug tracking system (we prefer github issues)

ACE Development

• Development and Release Process - The process we use to develop and release the ACE, TAO, and CIAO software.
• Style Guide - How to write compliant ACE, TAO, and CIAO code.
• Porting - What to do to port to a new platform.
• Exception Macros - How to use the ACE TRY macros properly (note that these macros are now deprecated).
• ACE developers forum in China.

Other Stuff

• Lessons - Lessons we have learned while building ACE.
• ACE+SSL - What is ACE+SSL and how to get it.
• Symbol versioning - How to do symbol versioning with ACE+TAO.
• CE-status.txt - The status of ACE on Windows CE.
• ACE-monotonic-timer.html - How to use the ACE monotonic timer support.
• ACEXML - A SAX2-based XML parser ACE uses and provides.