OMG Notification Service?
* The Notification Service is an implementation of the OMG’s Notification Service specification, which originally came out of the Telecommunications working group within the OMG. See http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/2000-06-20 for the specification. The Notification Service is backwards compatible with the OMG Event Service. The Real-Time Event Service is TAO specific. It was developed prior to the adoption of the OMG Notification Service specification. The RT Event Service was designed to meet the real-time and quality of service needs of certain sponsors of the DOC group, but has applicability in a wide variety of domains. On the surface, the two services provide several similar features, though the specifics of their interfaces and implementations are quite different: – similar communications model – support for structured events – filtering of events – support for subscriptions – mechanisms for specifying QoS requirements – support for delivery of sequences of events In additi