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Article #285Client Server Development
From: Carlo Mama
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 00:00
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Has anyone heard of or used this product? EZ-RPC. I am tring to chose tools to get me to 3-tier, this sounded cool to me. Is it believable? Supposably EZ RPC is a rapid prototyping compiler (code generator), allows ordinary application and drag-and-drop programmers, who do not have any communications programming expertise, to build sophisticated, three-tier, client-server applications. The product is based on and extends Open Network Computing (ONC) Remote Procedure Call (RPC) technology and External Data Representation (XDR). They claim that for procedure-oriented programmers, EZ-RPC suite of Software Development Kits (SDK), let application programmers quickly tie clients on any combination of 40 platforms to servers on any combination of 40 platforms, including: Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Macintosh, OS/2, NT, UNIX and VAX. The Application Programming Interface, or API, of any module can be "remoted" or distributed with no change whatsoever to the existing code. For Windows developers, EZ-RPC creates a Windows DLL that contains the complete API of the subsystem. This means that any Windows based developer can use a "GUI" tool to access a server subsystem as if it were local to the PC. Any module or subsystem written in C and currently running on a Windows, or other supported client, can be converted into a "network service" running on a UNIX server, with no change to the API or code. EZ-RPC is a next generation RPC SDK with extended features that allow application programmers with little or no network programming experience to build 3-tier, client-server applications. Also experienced network programmers will enjoy substantial productivity gains (as much as 90%) over programming directly to sockets or with a first generation tool. Does anyone have any comments on this product that they can share??? Thanx-- Carlo
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa21f,b5569e3ed6e4f5e4,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfa21f,public From: ZDKW53B@prodigy.com (Carlo Mama) Subject: Client Server Development Date: 1996/08/19 Message-ID: <4v9sum$l20@usenetz1.news.prodigy.com> X-Deja-AN: 175093282 distribution: world organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY newsgroups: can.sun-stroke