## 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.

cosNotification 1.1.7
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