es are required for some
applications, they yield excessive coupling and overhead for
applications (such as clients) that only want to use the ACE
Acceptor/Connector framework to connect and send messages to remote
servers. <P>

   To address the issues of tight-coupling outlined above, we propose
to refactor the code and functionality of the existing ACE frameworks
and wrapper classes to offer finer-grained components that can be
selectively included by embedded applications.  Our initial efforts
would foc