Client/server applications are of increasing importance in industry; they are a significant first step towards a global distributed processing model. A very recent response to this trend is the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) of the Open Software Foundation (OSF), the emerging new industry standard for distributed processing. The papers in this volume discuss the client/server approach based on DCE, illustrating and analyzing the functionality of important DCE components and applications. A number of contributions also focus on new models beyond traditional client/server processing and beyond DCE. The papers in this volume were presented at the International Workshop on the OSF Distributed Computing Environment, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, October 7-8, 1993. Following an introductory chapter, the contributions are grouped into parts on DCE analysis and comparison, application support, methods and tools, RPC extensions, and object-based systems.
Author(s): M. Bever, K. Geihs, L. Heuser, M. Mühlhäuser (auth.), Alexander Schill (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 731
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 291
Tags: Computer Communication Networks; Programming Techniques; Software Engineering; Operating Systems
Distributed systems, OSF DCE, and beyond....Pages 1-20
Comparing two distributed environments: DCE and ANSAware....Pages 21-38
Comparison of DCE RPC, DFN-RPC, ONC and PVM....Pages 39-46
Some DCE performance analysis results....Pages 47-62
A performance study of the DCE 1.0.1 Cell Directory Service: Implications for application and tool programmers....Pages 63-77
Fidl — a tool for using DCE from Fortran....Pages 78-88
Converting legacy FORTRAN applications to distributed applications....Pages 89-103
Using standard tools to build an Open, client/server prototype....Pages 104-119
Pilgrim's OSF DCE-based services architecture....Pages 120-134
Converting monolithic programs for DCE client-server computing given incomplete cutset information....Pages 135-146
Managing the transition to OSF DCE security....Pages 147-161
DCE Cells under megascope: Pilgrim insight into the resource status....Pages 162-178
Supporting continuous media in open distributed systems architectures....Pages 179-191
Integrating RPC and message passing for distributed programming....Pages 192-206
Optimized selection of servers for reduced response time in RPC....Pages 207-213
Extending DCE RPC by dynamic objects and dynamic typing....Pages 214-228
A simple ORB implementation on top of DCE for distributed object oriented programming....Pages 229-241
DCE++: Distributing C++-objects using OSF DCE....Pages 242-255
Object-oriented distributed computing with C++ and OSF DCE....Pages 256-266
Graphical design support for DCE applications....Pages 267-281
Taming heterogeneity in networked environments....Pages 282-283
