<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/02/xpath-functions"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../doc/otp_doc.css" type="text/css"> <title>Erlang -- Introduction to cosEvent</title> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#ff00ff" alink="#ff0000"><div id="container"> <script id="js" type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="../../../../doc/js/flipmenu/flipmenu.js"></script><script id="js2" type="text/javascript" src="../../../../doc/js/erlresolvelinks.js"></script><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- function getWinHeight() { var myHeight = 0; if( typeof( window.innerHeight ) == 'number' ) { //Non-IE myHeight = window.innerHeight; } else if( document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight ) ) { //IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode' myHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight; } else if( document.body && ( document.body.clientWidth || document.body.clientHeight ) ) { //IE 4 compatible myHeight = document.body.clientHeight; } return myHeight; } function setscrollpos() { var objf=document.getElementById('loadscrollpos'); document.getElementById("leftnav").scrollTop = objf.offsetTop - getWinHeight()/2; } function addEvent(obj, evType, fn){ if (obj.addEventListener){ obj.addEventListener(evType, fn, true); return true; } else if (obj.attachEvent){ var r = obj.attachEvent("on"+evType, fn); return r; } else { return false; } } addEvent(window, 'load', setscrollpos); //--></script><div id="leftnav"><div class="innertube"> <img alt="Erlang logo" src="../../../../doc/erlang-logo.png"><br><small><a href="users_guide.html">User's Guide</a><br><a href="index.html">Reference Manual</a><br><a href="release_notes.html">Release Notes</a><br><a href="../pdf/cosEvent-2.1.12.pdf">PDF</a><br><a href="../../../../doc/index.html">Top</a></small><p><strong>cosEvent</strong><br><strong>User's Guide</strong><br><small>Version 2.1.12</small></p> <br><a href="javascript:openAllFlips()">Expand All</a><br><a href="javascript:closeAllFlips()">Contract All</a><p><small><strong>Chapters</strong></small></p> <ul class="flipMenu" imagepath="../../../../doc/js/flipmenu"> <li id="no" title="The cosEvent Application" expanded="false">The cosEvent Application<ul> <li><a href="ch_contents.html"> Top of chapter </a></li> <li title="Content Overview"><a href="ch_contents.html#id60836">Content Overview</a></li> <li title="Brief Description of the User's Guide"><a href="ch_contents.html#id60123">Brief Description of the User's Guide</a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="loadscrollpos" title="Introduction to cosEvent" expanded="true">Introduction to cosEvent<ul> <li><a href="ch_introduction.html"> Top of chapter </a></li> <li title="Overview"><a href="ch_introduction.html#id61483">Overview</a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="no" title="Event Service" expanded="false">Event Service<ul> <li><a href="ch_es_intro.html"> Top of chapter </a></li> <li title="Overview of the CosEvent Service"><a href="ch_es_intro.html#id57986">Overview of the CosEvent Service</a></li> <li title="Event Service Components"><a href="ch_es_intro.html#id61804">Event Service Components</a></li> <li title="Event Service Communication Models"><a href="ch_es_intro.html#id61523">Event Service Communication Models</a></li> <li title="A Tutorial on How to Create a Simple Service"><a href="ch_es_intro.html#id61792">A Tutorial on How to Create a Simple Service</a></li> <li title="How to Run Everything"><a href="ch_es_intro.html#id60109">How to Run Everything</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div></div> <div id="content"> <div class="innertube"> <h1>2 Introduction to cosEvent</h1> <h3><a name="id61483">2.1 Overview</a></h3> <p>The cosEvent application is a Event Service compliant with the <span class="bold_code"><a href="http://www.omg.org">OMG</a></span> Event Service CosEvent. </p> <h4>Purpose and Dependencies</h4> <p>CosEvent is dependent on <strong>Orber</strong>, which provides CORBA functionality in an Erlang environment.</p> <h4>Prerequisites</h4> <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 <strong>CORBA, Fundamentals and Programming - Jon Siegel</strong> and <strong>Open Telecom Platform Documentation Set</strong>. It is also helpful to have read <strong>Concurrent Programming in Erlang</strong>.</p> </div> <div class="footer"> <hr> <p>Copyright © 1999-2012 Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</p> </div> </div> </div></body> </html>