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                       Understanding DCE
       By Ward Rosenberry, David Kenney, and Gerry Fisher
                     O'Reilly and Associates

o 266 pages
o ISBN 1-56592-005-8
o $24.95
o Now available.  Available overseas in mid-November.

Understanding DCE is a technical and conceptual overview of OSF's
Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) for programmers and technical
managers, marketing and sales people.  Unlike many O'Reilly & 
Associates books, Understanding DCE has no hands-on programming 
elements. Instead, the book focuses on how DCE can be used to 
accomplish typical programming tasks and provides explanations to 
help the reader understand all the parts of DCE.

Contents include:
 - purpose and goals of the Distributed Computing Environment
 - definition of a cell
 - distributing applications using RPC
 - improving program performance using threads
 - protecting resources using the security service
 - locating network resources using the directory (name) service
 - synchronizing network time using the time service
 - sharing and replicating files through the distributed file system
 - design and implementation considerations in writing distributed
   applications
 - getting started as a DCE administrator
 - determining your cell's boundaries
 - initial choices in configuration and administrative responsibilities
 - scenarios for security policies
 - considerations for breaking up or replicating services across multiple
   hosts
 - sample DCE application
 - answers to commonly asked DCE questions 
 - finding an external time provider
 - registering a cell's DNS or X.500 address


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