Component-integrated ACE ORB

The Component-Integrated ACE ORB (CIAO) is a CORBA component model (CCM) implementation built on top of TAO. CIAO is currently aiming to provide component-oriented paradigm to the distributed, real-time, embedded (DRE) system developers by abstracting DRE-critical systemic aspects, such as quality of service requirements, RT policies, as installable/configurable units supported by the component framework. Promoting these DRE-critical aspects as first-class metadata disentangles code for controlling these non-function aspects from application logic and makes DRE system development more flexible.

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