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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>
+