TAO

What is TAO?

TAO stands for The ACE Orb. TAO is an open source implementation of a CORBA ORB, but also provides a large number of CORBA Service implementations.

CORBA is a standard for communication between applications in a network environment. These applications can be developed using various programming languages and can run on different operating systems. More information on the CORBA standard can be found on the OMG CORBA site.

TAO has been entirely developed on the basis of ACE. Because of this use of ACE, TAO is available on a very large number of operating systems. CORBA gives you a standard way of enabling communication between different computers running different operating systems.

The CORBA specification also defines a number of standard services, such as the Naming Service for locating services. TAO offers an implementation for a large number of these services.

TAO also works well with other ORB implementations such as Visibroker from Borland. It is also possible to communicate with Java ORBs such as OpenORB or JacORB.
More information on TAO can be found on the TAO site.

Remedy IT's employees have many years of experience with ACE/TAO/CIAO. Remedy IT is also actively involved in the development of ACE/TAO/CIAO and is part of the core group of ACE developers.

Thanks to this experience, we can quickly deliver practical and appropriate solutions. If necessary, we will further expand or enhance the functionality of ACE/TAO/CIAO. These extensions will then be added to the ACE archive, so you can be certain of a supported code base.

Remedy IT contributes in several areas to the development of good user documentation for ACE/TAO/CIAO

Remedy IT publishes the TAO Programmers Guide. We also cooperated closely on C++NPv1 and C++NPv2 by Douglas C. Schmidt and Steve Houston. In addition, we have been involved as reviewers of the ACE Programmers Guide.