Understanding DCE is a technical and conceptual overview of OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) for programmers, technical managers, and marketing and sales people. Unlike many O'Reilly & Associates books, Understanding DCE has no hands-on programming elements. Instead, the book focuses on how DCE can be used to accomplish typical programming tasks and provides explanations to help the reader understand all the parts of DCE.Contents
The Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) stands as today's most broadly accepted and most ambitious effort to link diverse computers into a single, productive network. This book provides a bigger picture look at DCE, along with a detailed technical overview of this complex software system. The focus is on the kind of understanding that prepares readers to do things. Topics addressed include overall architecture, threads, RPC, directory services, and security. Includes guidelines for setting up and configuring DCE cells