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<H2>2 Introduction to cosTime</H2>
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<H3>2.1 Overview</H3>
<P>The cosTime application is Time and TimerEvent Services compliant with the <A TARGET="_top" HREF="http://www.omg.org">OMG</A>
Services CosTime and CosTimerEvent.
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<H4>2.1.1 Purpose and Dependencies</H4>
<P>This application use <CODE>calender:now_to_universal_time(Now)</CODE> to create a
UTC. Hence, the underlying OS must deliver a correct result when calling
<CODE>erlang:now()</CODE>.
<P> <STRONG>cosTime</STRONG> is dependent on <STRONG>Orber</STRONG>, which provides CORBA functionality in an Erlang environment.
<P> <STRONG>cosTimerEvent</STRONG> is dependent on <STRONG>Orber</STRONG> and <STRONG>cosNotification</STRONG>,
which provides CORBA functionality and Event handling in an Erlang environment.
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<H4>2.1.2 Prerequisites</H4>
<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> Recommended reading includes <STRONG>CORBA,
Fundamentals and Programming - Jon Siegel</STRONG> and <STRONG> Open Telecom Platform Documentation
Set</STRONG>. It is also helpful to have read <STRONG> Concurrent Programming in Erlang</STRONG>.
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