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      <year>2011</year>
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    <title>Introduction to cosEvent</title>
    <prepared>Niclas Eklund</prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <date>1999-09-17</date>
    <rev></rev>
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  <section>
    <title>Overview</title>
    <p>The cosEvent application is a Event Service compliant with the <url href="http://www.omg.org">OMG</url> 
      Event Service CosEvent.
      </p>

    <section>
      <title>Purpose and Dependencies</title>
      <p>CosEvent is dependent on  <em>Orber</em>, which provides CORBA functionality in an Erlang environment.</p>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Prerequisites</title>
      <p>To fully understand the concepts presented in the
        documentation, it is recommended that the user is familiar
        with distributed programming and CORBA.  
        </p>
      <p>Recommended reading includes <em>CORBA, Fundamentals and Programming - Jon Siegel</em> and <em>Open Telecom Platform Documentation Set</em>. It is also helpful to  have read
        <em>Concurrent Programming in Erlang</em>.</p>
    </section>
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