Jon Mauney (mauney@tophat) wrote:
: brent@uis.com (Brent Engelbert) writes:

: >I'm looking for an RPC class library.  I would like to get one
: >instead of developing my own.  Any help would be appreciated.

: You'll need to be more specific about the term "RPC".
: If you mean DCE RPC, there are several, with Citibank's
: being freely available and HP's being purchasable.

where is Citibank's?

: If you mean Courier, I can't help.

I apologize if this is a FAQ, but what's the difference?

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In article <mauney.780696717@tophat.mauney.com> mauney@tophat (Jon Mauney) writes:
>  And it seems there was another well-known RPC mechanism,
>   but I can't remember its name right now...:-)

You must mean NCS :^/
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Hi there,

In article <mauney.780696717@tophat.mauney.com>,
Jon Mauney <mauney@tophat> wrote:
>brent@uis.com (Brent Engelbert) writes:
>
>>I'm looking for an RPC class library.  I would like to get one
>>instead of developing my own.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>You'll need to be more specific about the term "RPC".
>If you mean DCE RPC, there are several, with Citibank's
>being freely available and HP's being purchasable.
>
>If you mean Courier, I can't help.
>
>And it seems there was another well-known RPC mechanism,
>but I can't remember its name right now...:-)

Come now, I know they try and make everything they produce into a defacto
standard, but it is definitely the most widely use RPC variant (Sun if you
hadn't guessed).

Have a look at the ACE wrappers (ics.uci.edu:gnu/ACE_Wrappers.2.15.1.tar.Z).
They implement nice C++ wrappers around RPC, Sockets, etc.


BTW. They are free, and have quite a large mailing list of users..


Regards,
 Rohan
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jim@belved.belv.com (Jim Kimball) writes:
>Jon Mauney (mauney@tophat) wrote:
>: brent@uis.com (Brent Engelbert) writes:
>: >instead of developing my own.  Any help would be appreciated.
>: You'll need to be more specific about the term "RPC".
>: If you mean DCE RPC, there are several, with Citibank's
>: being freely available and HP's being purchasable.

>where is Citibank's?

anon ftp wilma.cs.brown.edu look for file Objtran.tar.Z.


>: If you mean Courier, I can't help.

>I apologize if this is a FAQ, but what's the difference?

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is a generic term.  It is a paradigm
for distributed computing.  The idea is to take network communications
and wrap them up to look as much like ordinary procedure calls as
possible.

There are lots of ways to design and implement an RPC system,
and several of those ways have been tried.
Competing RPC mechanisms differ both in the details seen by the
application programmer and in the details of the packets sent
over the wire.

It makes about as much sense to ask a question about "RPC"
as to ask about "assembly language".

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I'm looking for an RPC class library.  I would like to get one
instead of developing my own.  Any help would be appreciated.

Please e-mail responses.  Thanks.
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Brent D. Engelbert
Unix Integration Services                                Phone: (515) 254-3074
11033 Aurora Ave Urbandale, IA  50322                    brent@uis.com

I'm looking for an RPC class library.  I would like to get one
instead of developing my own.  Any help would be appreciated.

Please e-mail responses.  Thanks.

--
Brent D. Engelbert
Unix Integration Services                                Phone: (515) 254-3074
11033 Aurora Ave Urbandale, IA  50322                    brent@uis.com

brent@uis.com (Brent Engelbert) writes:

>I'm looking for an RPC class library.  I would like to get one
>instead of developing my own.  Any help would be appreciated.

You'll need to be more specific about the term "RPC".
If you mean DCE RPC, there are several, with Citibank's
being freely available and HP's being purchasable.

If you mean Courier, I can't help.

And it seems there was another well-known RPC mechanism,
but I can't remember its name right now...:-)
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Jon Mauney      jon@mauney.com
Mauney Computer Consulting   (919) 828-8053
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On a campaign to have qualifiers permanently attached to "RPC" and "IDL"