OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

OSF DCE Application Development Guide—Core Components

16.6.1 Obtaining an Endpoint

The endpoint mapper service of dced maintains the local endpoint map. The endpoint

map is composed of elements which contain fully bound server binding information for a

potential binding and an associated interface identiﬁer and object UUID (which may be

nil). Optionally, a map element can also contain an annotation such as the interface

name.

Servers use the local endpoint mapper service to register their binding information. Each

interface for which a server must register binding information requires a separate call to

an rpc_ep_register...( ) routine, which calls the endpoint map service. The endpoint

map service uses a new map element for every combination of binding information

speciﬁed by the server. Figure 16-4 shows the correspondence between server binding

information speciﬁed by a server and a graphic representation of the resulting endpoint

map elements.

Figure 16-4. Mapping Information and Corresponding Endpoint Map Elements

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