DCE Application Programming Guide

HP NonStop DCE Application Programming Guide—429551-003
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What’s New in This Guide vii
What’s New in This Guide vii
Guide Information vii
New and Changed Information vii
About This Guide ix
Audience ix
Organization ix
Further Reading x
Notation Conventions xi
1. NonStop DCE Application Development Environment
NonStop DCE Components 1-1
Application Development Environment 1-2
Run-Time Services 1-4
NonStop DCE Extensions 1-4
Unsupported Features 1-5
Working in the Application Development Environment 1-7
Environmental Dependencies 1-8
A Sample DCE Application 1-8
The Location of Files 1-9
Using DCE Documentation 1-9
2. Application Design Considerations
Choosing a Server Model 2-1
Model for Structuring Applications 2-1
Standard Multithreaded Server 2-1
RPC Considerations and Limits 2-2
UDP Versus TCP Protocol Sequences 2-2
Capacity and Limits 2-4
Interprocess Communication With Non-DCE Programs 2-6
Access to DCE Servers 2-6
Access to Non-DCE Servers 2-7
Programming Languages 2-8
Using a Fault-Tolerant Backing Store 2-9
3. Application Programming With NonStop DCE Threads
NonStop DCE Threads 3-1
Threads Error Reporting 3-2
Signal Handling 3-2
Portability of Threads 3-3
Threading in DCE Run-Time Code 3-3