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- From: luca@dedalo.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli)
- Subject: Re: RPC client/server application in a mixed environment ?
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:39:36 GMT
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- ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker) writes:
-
- >Hi,
-
- >we are in the process of implementing a client-server application using
- >OS/2 1.3 at the moment, but we will move to OS/2 2.x soon. The server
- >is supposed to be running on a OS/2 machine with several OS/2, DOS/Windows
- >and Unix clients accessing the server functions via RPC.
-
- >Has anybody done something like that before and can recommend books/articles
- >on RPC programming in a mixed environment ? Is the mixed environment
- >idea feasible in the first place ?
-
- Sure, it is feasible. I don't know any book. There are some RFC (1057 and
- 1014) on the RPC protocol as implemeted by Sun. Your mixed environment
- does not constitute a problem (you can find Sun RPC in any
- of the platforms you indicated).
-
- >What kind of RPC libraries are available for OS/2 1.3 and OS/2 2.0 ? On
- >which communication protocols is the RPC mechanism based ? TCP/IP ?
-
- I have IBM TCP/IP for OS/2 Toolkit. It contains the Sun RPC programming
- tools and libraries and also Apollo's NCS (Network Computing System).
- There are also RPC implementations not based on TPC/IP: for instance
- Netwise RPC which can also run over SNA and connect IBM mainframes.
-
- >If it is TCP/IP, would it still be possible to connect the OS/2 server to
- >a Netware network which uses IPX/SPX as the underlying protocol ?
-
- No problem. Clients can run both protocols at the same time. If you
- want to implement RPC on the Netware server there is a Novell product
- called Netware RPC (but I think it is not compatible with others RPC
- implementations).
-
-
- >Thanks for any info, Ernst.
- >--
-
- Bye.
-
- Luca Priorelli
-