Preface

The OSF DCE Application Development Guide provides information about how to program the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) provided for each OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) component.

Audience

This guide is written for application programmers with UNIX operating system and C language experience who want to develop and write applications to run on DCE.

Applicability

This is Revision 1.1 of this document. It applies to the OSF DCE Version 1.1 offering and related updates. See your software license for details.

Purpose

The purpose of this guide is to assist programmers in developing applications that use DCE. After reading this guide, you should be able to program the Application Programming Interfaces provided for each DCE component.

Document Usage

The OSF DCE Application Development Guide consists of three books, as follows:

• OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Introduction and Style Guide
• OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components
  • Part 1. DCE Facilities
  • Part 2. DCE Threads
  • Part 3. DCE Remote Procedure Call
  • Part 4. DCE Distributed Time Service
  • Part 5. DCE Security Service
• OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Directory Services
  • Part 1. DCE Directory Service
  • Part 2. CDS Application Programming
  • Part 3. GDS Application Programming
  • Part 4. XDS/XOM Supplementary Information

Related Documents

For additional information about the Distributed Computing Environment, refer to the following documents:

• Transarc DCE Introduction
• Transarc DCE Command Reference
• OSF DCE Application Development Reference
• Transarc DCE Administration Guide
• OSF DCE DFS Administration Guide and Reference
• OSF DCE GDS Administration Guide and Reference
• OSF DCE Problem Determination Guide
• OSF DCE Porting and Testing Guide
• Application Environment Specification/Distributed Computing
• OSF DCE Technical Supplement
• OSF DCE Release Notes

Problem Reporting

If you have any problems with the software or documentation, please contact your software vendor's customer service department.