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    <title>Introduction to cosTime</title>
    <prepared>Niclas Eklund</prepared>
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    <date>2000-01-31</date>
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  <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>
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    <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>
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