## 2 Introduction to cosEvent

### 2.1 Overview

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

#### 2.1.1 Purpose and Dependencies

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

#### 2.1.2 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.

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