The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), from the Open Software Foundation (OSF), will be the predominant middleware for developing distributed applications in the foreseeable future. But the DCE application programming interface (API) is complex and a barrier to its adoption. This book provides guidelines and tools to lessen the complexity of using the DCE, and to permit it to be used from other programming languages, such as COBOL. Covers the new facilities in the OSF DCE 1.1 Release that eases the development and management of application servers, the management of network communications, the location of resources, and the enforcement of security.
- ISBN10 0133244199
- ISBN13 9780133244199
- Publish Date 31 January 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 1998
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prentice Hall
- Format Paperback
- Pages 512
- Language English