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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">

<chapter>
  <header>
    <copyright>
      <year>1999</year>
      <year>2011</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.

  The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Ericsson AB.
    </legalnotice>

    <title>Introduction to cosEvent</title>
    <prepared>Niclas Eklund</prepared>
    <docno></docno>
    <date>1999-09-17</date>
    <rev></rev>
    <file>ch_introduction.xml</file>
  </header>

  <section>
    <title>Overview</title>
    <p>The cosEvent application is a Event Service compliant with the <url href="http://www.omg.org">OMG</url> 
      Event Service CosEvent.
      </p>

    <section>
      <title>Purpose and Dependencies</title>
      <p>CosEvent 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 and CORBA.  
        </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>