C++ Network Programming, Volume I: Mastering Complexity with Ace and Patterns: 1 (C++ in Depth)

• Does for C++ network programming what Stevens did for UNIX network programming.
• Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) in depth: patterns, class libraries, frameworks, and real-world code examples.
• Building distributed and concurrent client/server software for heterogeneous environments: key challenges and solutions.

With the Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE), developers have what they've long sought: a mature, open source, object-oriented framework for building enterprise applications more rapidly and cost-effectively. Now, ACE's creator and one of its leading consultants present the first comprehensive guide to ACE -- and to building extensible object-oriented software with C++ in distributed, heterogeneous environments. The authors begin by describing the key design challenges that arise when objects are distributed beyond a single thread in a single process. They demonstrate how middleware and the ACE toolkit can be applied together to address many of these challenges; and introduce a taxonomy of middleware layers for understanding and solving distributed design problems. It then shows how ACE provides flexible, portable, and efficient support for each of these design dimensions. Extensive C++ code samples are provided. For all developers, analysts, and architects using C++ to build enterprise applications.

Doug Schmidt, original developer of ACE, is co-editor of Pattern Languages of Program Design (Addison Wesley), on the faculty at UC Irvine, and a member of IEEE, ACM, and USENIX. Steve Huston has 18 years of software engineering experience, focusing primarily on networking and distributed applications development. He is founder and President/CEO of Riverace Corporation, where he provides support for ACE and consults on projects that utilize ACE in distributed, multi-platform environments.