> ## 2 Introduction to cosNotification

> ### 2.1 Overview

> The cosNotification application is a Notification Service compliant with the OMG Notification Service CosNotification.

> #### 2.1.1 Purpose and Dependencies

> cosNotification is dependent on Orber-3.1.7 or later, which provides CORBA functionality in an Erlang environment, cosTime-1.0.1 or later and IDL-files to be compiled using IC-4.0.4 or later.

> #### 2.1.2 Prerequisites

> 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.

> Recommended reading includes books recommended by the OMG and Open Telecom Platform Documentation Set. It is also helpful to have read Concurrent Programming in Erlang.

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