2 Introduction to cosEvent

2.1  Overview

The cosEvent application is a Event Service compliant with the OMG Event Service CosEvent.

Purpose and Dependencies

CosEvent is dependent on Orber, which provides CORBA functionality in an Erlang environment.

Prerequisites

To fully understand the concepts presented in the documentation, it is recommended that the user is familiar with distributed programming and CORBA.

Recommended reading includes CORBA, Fundamentals and Programming - Jon Siegel and Open Telecom Platform Documentation Set. It is also helpful to have read Concurrent Programming in Erlang.