Hello All, Is there any interests in libraries for distributed message passing and event dispatching? There are many aspects involved in the design of these systems, such as choosing proper message/event id types, routing/dispatching algorithms, synchronization strategies for routing data structures and remote connection transport, etc.. Various application domains present different requirements for performance and functionalities (in embedded systems, integers or sub-int (bit-fields) are used as ids and routing is based on registration table, while in the e-commerce applications, class/structs with key attributes can be used as ids to facilitate more advanced routings). I am working on a C++ template library for generic publish/subscribe called Channel. Channel's major components (message IDs, routing algorithms...) are configurable as template parameters. As a namespace shared by peer threads, channels support publish/subscribe scope control, message filtering, and translation. Channel is used the same way as we use STL containers; by instantiating Channel template with proper id type, id trait and routing algorithms, user can create customized message passing and event dispatching facility for a particular application. More documentations and code can be found at : http://channel.sourceforge.net Right now Channel is built on top of ACE (adaptive communication environment) to gain platform independence. Besides classes related to socket connections and message marshaling, most channel classes are quite platform independent. I am refactoring the code and move the platform dependent code into a few policy classes. I would like to know is there any interests in boost for such frameworks. If so, I'll be glad to present a boostified version of the framework for a review process and use existing boost classes for platform abstractions. Thanks Yigong