Editing Adaptive Communication Environment

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| name                   = ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE)
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| released               = {{Start date and age|1993}}
| latest release version = 7.0.11
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2022|12|19}}<ref>{{cite mailing list | url = https://list.isis.vanderbilt.edu/pipermail/ace-announce/2022-December/000051.html | title = ACE 7.0.11 and TAO 3.0.11 available for download | date= 19 December 2022 | access-date=16 February 2023 | mailing-list= ace-announce | last= Willemsen | first= Johnny}}</ref>
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| programming language   = [[C++]]
| genre                  = Object-oriented C++ classes Framework for Network
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| website                = {{URL|www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html}}
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The '''Adaptive Communication Environment''' ('''ACE''') is an [[Open-source software|open source]] [[software framework]] used for network programming. It provides a set of [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] [[C++]] [[Class (computer science)|classes]] designed to help address the inherent complexities and challenges in network programming by preventing common errors.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.riverace.com/acebooks/index.htm#cnpv1 |title=C++ Network Programming, Volume 1, Schmidt and Huston, Addison Wesley Professional, 2001 |access-date=2009-07-30 |archive-date=2008-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225091406/http://www.riverace.com/acebooks/index.htm#cnpv1 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History==
ACE was initially developed by [[Douglas C. Schmidt]] during his graduate work at the [[University of California, Irvine]]. Development followed him to the [[Washington University in St. Louis]], where he was employed. ACE is open-source software released by WU's Distributed Object Computer (DOC) group. Its development continued in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at [[Vanderbilt University]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.riverace.com/acebooks/index.htm#apg |title=ACE Programmer's Guide, The: Practical Design Patterns for Network and Systems Programming, Huston, Johnson and Syyid, Addison Wesley Professional, 2003 |access-date=2009-07-30 |archive-date=2008-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225091406/http://www.riverace.com/acebooks/index.htm#apg |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Features==
ACE provides a standardized usage for operating system/machine specific features. It provides common data types and methods<ref>[http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/PDF/wrapper-facade.pdf Wrapper Facade, A Structural Pattern for Encapsulating Functions within Classes, Schmidt]</ref> to access the powerful but complex features of modern [[operating system]]s. These include: [[inter-process communication]], [[thread (computer science)|thread]] management, efficient [[memory management]], etc. 

It was designed to be portable and provide a common framework. The same code will work on most [[Unix]]es, [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[VxWorks]], [[QNX]], [[OpenVMS]], etc., with minimal changes.<ref>Porting ACE to a New OS, https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO/blob/master/ACE/docs/ACE-porting.html</ref> Due to this [[cross-platform]] support, it has been widely used in the development of [[communication software]]. Some of the successful projects that have used ACE includes: [[Motorola]] [[Iridium (satellite)|Iridium]] satellites, [[Boeing Wedgetail]]'s Australian airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) system, and others.<ref>ACE and TAO Success Stories, http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/TAO-users.html</ref>

ACE used [[software design pattern]]s.<ref>Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Volume 2, Schmidt et al., Jon Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2000</ref>

==See also==
* [[Communication software]]
* [[Component-integrated ACE ORB]]
* [[Cross-platform support middleware]]
* [[TAO (software)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{Official website|www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html}}
*[https://www.explinks.com/blog/ Restful API Information]
*[http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu Distributed object computer (DOC) Group website]
*[http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/research/DOC Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616153306/https://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/research/DOC |date=2010-06-16 }}
*[http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/Doxygen ACE Doxygen reference]
*[https://github.com/DOCGroup/ACE_TAO ACE github code repository]

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