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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+  <header>
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2000</year><year>2009</year>
+      <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+    </copyright>
+    <legalnotice>
+      The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
+      Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
+      compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the
+      Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be
+      retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/.
+    
+      Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS"
+      basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See
+      the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations
+      under the License.
+    
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    <title>Introduction to cosTime</title>
+    <prepared>Niclas Eklund</prepared>
+    <docno></docno>
+    <date>2000-01-31</date>
+    <rev></rev>
+    <file>ch_introduction.xml</file>
+  </header>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>Overview</title>
+    <p>The cosTime application is Time and TimerEvent Services compliant with the <url href="http://www.omg.org">OMG</url> 
+      Services CosTime and CosTimerEvent.
+      </p>
+
+    <section>
+      <title>Purpose and Dependencies</title>
+      <p>This application use <c>calender:now_to_universal_time(Now)</c> to create a 
+        UTC. Hence, the underlying OS must deliver a correct result when calling 
+        <c>erlang:now()</c>.</p>
+      <p><em>cosTime</em> is dependent on  <em>Orber</em>, which provides CORBA functionality in an Erlang environment.</p>
+      <p><em>cosTimerEvent</em> is dependent on  <em>Orber</em> and <em>cosNotification</em>, 
+        which provides CORBA functionality and Event handling 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, the Orber and cosNotification applications.
+        </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>
+  </section>
+</chapter>
+