OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

OSF DCE Application Development Guide—Core Components
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3. The import operation returns a binding handle that refers to the requested
object UUID and binding information for a server that offers the
corresponding object.
4. The client issues the remote procedure call by using that binding handle.
5. The server looks up the type of the requested object.
6. The server assigns the remote procedure call to the manager that implements
the called remote procedure for that type of object.
14.3.5.3 System-Specific Applications
For some applications, the clients need to import an RPC resource that belongs to a
specific system, and the clients can specify a server entry name to learn about a
server on that system. For example, a process server that allows clients to monitor
and control processes on a remote machine is useful only to that machine. Figure
14-17 illustrates this type of system-specific interpretation of the resource model.
Figure 14-17. Resource Model: A System-Specific Application
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