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User's Guide
Version 2.1.8

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Chapters

- The cosEvent Application
  - Top of chapter
  - Content Overview
  - Brief Description of the User's Guide
- Introduction to cosEvent
  - Top of chapter
  - Overview
- Event Service
  - Top of chapter
  - Overview of the CosEvent Service
  - Event Service Components
  - Event Service Communication Models
  - A Tutorial on How to Create a Simple Service
  - How to Run Everything

# 2 Introduction to cosEvent

### 2.1 Overview

The cosEvent application is a Event Service compliant with the OMG Event Service CosEvent.

#### Purpose and Dependencies

CosEvent is dependent on Orber, which provides CORBA functionality in an Erlang environment.

#### Prerequisites

To fully understand the concepts presented in the documentation, it is recommended that the user is familiar with distributed programming and CORBA.

Recommended reading includes CORBA, Fundamentals and Programming - Jon Siegel and Open Telecom Platform Documentation Set. It is also helpful to have read Concurrent Programming in Erlang.