rage our efforts to minimize the
size of your ACE+TAO applications. </P>

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<h3>Contents</h3>
<ul>
 <li><a href="#pastwork">Past Work</a>
 <li><a href="#futurework">Future Work</a>
</ul>

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<h3><a name="pastwork">Past Work</a></h3>
<p>

Previous ACE+TAO subsetting efforts were mainly concerned with
breaking up ACE into multiple libraries.  Although this was a worthy
goal, the existing component definitions in <a
href="../ace/ace.mpc">ace.mpc</a> are too tightly coupled.  Even if
ACE was compiled into 