DCE Application Programming Guide

HP NonStop DCE Application Programming Guide—429551-003

About This Guide

This guide is an introduction to the DCE application development environment. It

provides the information needed to develop applications compliant with the Open

Software Foundation (OSF) implementation of DCE and to take advantage of the

special features of the DCE product. This guide also highlights the differences between

DCE and OSF DCE.

Audience

This guide is intended for application developers who are creating DCE applications for

an HP NonStop server. It assumes that the reader has a general understanding of OSF

DCE and is familiar with the OSS environment.

Organization

Section 1 Introduces the NonStop DCE application development

environment. It describes the components and discusses the

limitations and extensions of NonStop DCE.

Section 2

Discusses programming with NonStop DCE. It builds on the

information provided in both volumes of the OSF DCE

Application Development Guide.

Section 3

Discusses threading issues and provides guidelines for

developing NonStop DCE applications.

Section 4

Provides guidance on how to build, run, and debug NonStop

DCE applications.

Section 5

Describes two versions of a sample DCE application: one is

a standard DCE application and the other uses the DCE

release 1.1 server initialization application program interface

(API) and serviceability API.

Appendix A

Contains the complete listings for the sample NonStop DCE

applications described in Section 5.

Appendix B

Contains the listings for a sample client-server application

that mixes C and COBOL programming languages.

Appendix C

Contains the reference pages for Guardian

SERVERCLASS_SEND_,

SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_BEGIN_,

SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_SEND_,

SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_END_, and

SERVERCLASS_DIALOG_ABORT_ jackets and TMF

transaction-demarcation jackets.

Glossary

Defines terms used within this guide.