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Adaptive Communication Environment

The Adaptive Communication Environment (often referred to as ACE) is an open source framework of object oriented classes to help the developing of communication software.

ACE is one of many solutions to a common problem: making easy to use powerful but complex features of modern operating systems like inter-process communication, thread management, efficient memory management and so on. It was developed at the University of California, Irvine.

ACE is written in C++ and runs on a wide variety of operating systems (must Unixes, Microsoft Windows various versions, real-time systems like VxWorks and QnX). It enjoyed some success in the communication industry, notably for Motorola Iridium satellites.