Hello, I just uploaded a new version of Join library to Vault under Concurrent Programming. Based on the feedback from list, the following changes are made: . add schedulers as actor's template policy class . add timed synchronous calls . add doc and samples for port based API . add more doc about Join internals. For people who are not familiar with the librayr. Here is a simple description: Join is an asynchronous, message based C++ concurrency library based on join calculus. It is applicable both to multi-threaded applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous, event-based applications. It follows Comega's design and implementation and builds with Boost facilities. It provides a high level concurrency API with asynchronous methods, synchronous methods, and chords which are "join-patterns" defining the synchronization, asynchrony, and concurrency. website and download: http://channel.sourceforge.net Any comments and suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks Yigong