The Art of Distributed Applications: Programming Techniques for Remote Procedure Call (The Sun Technical Reference Library) [Hardcover]

John R. Corbin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1991 | Series: The Sun Technical Reference Library

Powerful networked workstations are adding a new dimension to the world of computing. Programmers are challenged to write applications that exploit the speed and parallelism of such distributed systems - programs that take advantage of the networking and communication features of high-speed workstations. John Corbin, a senior engineer in Sun Microsystem's networking group, bases his text on RPC (Remote Procedure Call), a technique for programming communication processes in UNIX environments. The book is designed as a professional reference for the working programmer who needs to explore the possibilities of designing distributed networked applications under UNIX. However, it can also be used as a supplemental text in a distributed systems course, providing the basis for laboratory assignments.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 330 pages
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K (January 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540972471
• ISBN-13: 978-3540972471
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,122,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Basics of RPC programming using SUN's ONC, September 18, 2000

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This review is from: The Art of Distributed Applications: Programming Techniques for Remote Procedure Call (Sun Technical Reference Library) (Hardcover)

The book covers from the basics of Distributed Appications and to the design of one of those. It concentrates on the SUN's RPC library. It does deal with good and simple examples, but on in depth. Certain examples can be dealt with more elegantly and more interestingly. Only few examples are given which doesnt cover much of this vast field. I think an example is worth 1000 words. But the book doesnt progress in that way. Infact the SUN's tutorial in docs.sun.com deals more of examples and explanation than this book does. But one thing to be appreciated is that the XDR portion of this book is great and a master piece. For a beginner like me it helped me in understanding a lot into it. I does cover only the basics of every thing. Nothing in depth. The chapter on rpcgen is worth mentioning for the author's lucidness in explaining the beautiful concepts involved in it. Finally the book ends up with the mention of the future of RPC. According to me it is the best ONLY for Beginners.