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    <title>Introduction to cosProperty</title>
    <prepared>Niclas Eklund</prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <date>2000-06-07</date>
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  <section>
    <title>Overview</title>
    <p>The cosProperty application is compliant with the <url href="http://www.omg.org">OMG</url> 
      Service CosProperty Service.
      </p>

    <section>
      <title>Purpose and Dependencies</title>
      <p><em>cosProperty</em> 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, CORBA and the Orber application.
        </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>
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