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    <title>Introduction to cosNotification</title>
    <prepared>Niclas Eklund</prepared>
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    <date>2000-01-31</date>
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  <section>
    <title>Overview</title>
    <p>The cosNotification application is a Notification Service compliant with the <url href="http://www.omg.org">OMG</url> 
      Notification Service CosNotification.
      </p>

    <section>
      <title>Purpose and Dependencies</title>
      <p><em>cosNotification</em> is dependent on  <em>Orber-3.1.7</em> or later, 
        which provides CORBA functionality in an Erlang environment,
        <em>cosTime-1.0.1</em> or later and IDL-files to be compiled using <em>IC-4.0.4</em> or later.</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 and the Orber application.
        </p>
      <p>Recommended reading includes books recommended by the <em>OMG</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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