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echidna
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Welcome to echidna!

This is the source code for the echidna project. The main project page is at:
http://echidna.googlecode.com/

All of our documentation is on the project wiki:
http://code.google.com/p/echidna/w/list


Introduction
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This is a lightweight C++ framework that provides an environment for the
development of event-based applications. The core of the framework is an 
event bus with a publish-subscribe mechanism, working both inside a single 
process and in a distributed environment.
Furthermore, the echidna component container allows you to build a component
based architecture on top of the event communication mechanism.

It depends on C++ boost libraries (visit: http://www.boost.org).

Installation
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This repository contains the echidna event bus framework.

See INSTALL for (generic) installation instructions.


The Echidna Distribution
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This is a sketch of the resulting directory structure:

echidna\ ............................................The “echidna root directory”
   README ....................................Generic documentation about echidna
   INSTALL ............................................Installation documentation
   ChangeLog ..............................................The log of the changes
   Version .................................This file contains the version number
   echidna\ .............................................All Echidna Header files
   samples\ ....................................................Examples and test
     eventbus\ .................................A simple example of the bus event
     container\ ......................A simple example of the component container
     distributed\ ...........A demo of the bus event in a distributed environment
                     …more samples…
   doc\ .........................................A subset of Echidna library docs