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Making Nets Work
December
2008
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Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter. I hope
you have enjoyed your various holiday celebrations
Although my wife and I did have a good Christmas
celebration, we each got a very unwelcome "gift" - the
flu.
Although a lot of good work was accomplished the
first part of December, the latter half's productivity
was reduced even more than the seasonal slowdown.
However, I do have news about new and upcoming releases
of some of the networked programming tools that you and
I rely on.
To keep in touch with what goes on between newsletter
issues, please keep an eye on my blog. As always, be sure to
forward this note to other people you work with to be
sure they know what's happening in the world of
networked application development.
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Apache Qpid M4 Coming - No, Really
This Time!
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Last month I noted that Apache Qpid
M4 was being readied for release. It's still being
readied. It was delayed by some late fixes, process
issues, and vacation time. Hopefully Apache Qpid M4 will
be released early in January.
If you decide to
give Qpid a
whirl, please let me know how it goes. I've recently
delivered an initial set of code for a project based on
Qpid and I'm impressed with the range of features. The
API shows the protocol more than I'd ideally like, which
makes it seem more complicated than it really is. So if
you're checking it out and get lost in the woods, give
me a call and I'll be glad to help
out.
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ACE 5.7 Release Coming
Soon
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The ACE 5.6.7 micro-release was
released on November 27. Hopefully the next planned full
release, ACE 5.7, will arrive shortly after the new
year. Some of the benefits to the new ACE release
are:
- New ports to HP-UX 11iv3 on Integrity, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 using the Intel C++ compiler, and
AIX 6.1 using IBM XL C++ 9 (thank you to Amdocs for
sponsoring these!)
- Improvements and very important fixes to the
Service Configurator functionality
- A new ACE_Stack_Trace class that allows you to log
the current call stack at any point
- Improvements to support for many newer compilers
and platforms
Some of these items are also
available in the ACE 5.6a Fix Kit available to Riverace
ACE Support customers. If you'd like to discuss how the
new ACE release may affect your choice of tools for an
upcoming project, please contact me any
time.
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If you have any ideas for areas of networked
programming you'd like to hear about in future issues,
please email me with your suggestions. In the meantime,
keep those nets working!
Sincerely,
Steve Huston
Riverace
Corporation
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