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- From: fkittred@spchp13.BBN.COM (Fletcher Kittredge)
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- Subject: Re: RPC descriptions RFC1014 and RFC1057... (really RPC books)
- Date: 29 Dec 92 08:47:20
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- In-reply-to: ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de's message of 29 Dec 92 13:06:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.130633.29392@cs.tu-berlin.de> ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker) writes:
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- >Apart from that, can anybody recommend other documentation for RPC and
- >XDR ? I had a look at Stevens' Network book, but he only gives a short
- >overview.
-
- Try one of these three depending on your tastes:
-
- The Art of Distributed Applications
- John R. Corbin
- ISBN 0-387-97247-1
-
- This book focuses entirely on developing Sun RPC (and XDR) based
- applications. It is a good book if you already have a sense of what
- Sun RPC is about, and are just looking for a high quality, detailed
- reference manual.
-
- Guide to Writing DCE Applications
- John Shirley
- ISBN 1-56592-004-X
-
- Which focuses entirely on developing DCE RPC based applications.
-
- Note that the titles for both of these books are misleading. The
- Corbin book only discusses the art of Sun RPC based distributed
- applications, not distributed applications in general. The Shirley
- book only discusses the RPC portion of the DCE. It doesn't, for
- example, discuss writing servers using DCS threads.
-
- Likewise, the RPC in the following book refers to only Sun RPC:
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- Power Programming with RPC
- John Bloomer
- O'Reilly & Associates
- ISBN 0-937175-77-3
-
- is exactly what one would expect from a O'Reilly book. Despite its
- completeness and level of detail, this voluminous book (453 pages) is
- well organized, well written and printed and bound to last for at
- least six months of careful use ;-). Bloomer's book covers much more
- territory than Corbin's.
-
-
- regards,
- fletcher
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