[Ace-users] [ace-users] Message Passing Between Two Tasks

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi David,

> Thank you for the information. I have been using the APG (First book I
> got when it looked like I might go down the ACE path). I assumed that
> there would be a way for the framework to sign up tasks and use the
> message queues. Here is what I was looking for:
> 
>       Task1 ---->  Message Queue Task2 ---->  Task2
> 
> In this case Task1 could tell Task2 to do something by placing a message
> in the message queue of Task2; then Task2 would be able to process the
> message.
> 
> You are right there will have to be a way for both tasks to know about
> the queue. I thought that ACE would have a way to advertise queues for
> tasks to know about them, but I am not sure how. Is there a way for the
> framework to advertise queues, or do I have something wrong with my
> assumptions?

There's no built-in support for inter-task communication in ACE other
than the ACE Streams framework.  It would be straightforward to add the
capabilities you described above by using the ACE_Hash_Map_Manager in
conjunction with the ACE Task framework.

Take care,

     Doug