1. Overview - Introduction to DCE Application Programming
1.2 Overview of DCE Application Development Steps
1.3 DCE Application Development Tools
1.3.2 DCE Interface Definition Language
1.3.4 The Attribute Configuration File
1.4.1 Generating the Interface UUID
1.4.2 Writing the Interface Definition File
1.4.3 Writing the Attribute Configuration File
1.4.4 Processing the Files with the IDL Compiler
1.5.1 Setting Up for Serviceability
1.5.2 Setting Up the Server's Objects
1.5.4 Defining the Manager Entry Point Vectors for Each Set of Operations
1.5.6 Specifying Multithreadedness
1.5.7 Listening for Incoming Service Requests
1.5.8 Cleaning Up Code When the Server Terminates
1.6 The Client Binding and RPC Invocation
1.6.1 Importing the Binding Information from the Namespace
1.6.2 Annotating the Binding Handle for Security
1.6.3 Invoking Remote Procedure Calls
1.7 The Server's Manager of RPC Requests
1.7.1 Getting the Client's Credentials
1.7.2 Getting the Object's ACL
1.7.3 Making the Authorization Decision
1.7.4 Servicing the RPC Request
1.7.5 Returning the Results and Resuming Listening
1.8 About DCE Programming Style
1.8.1 Mechanism, Policy, and Style
2.1.2 Specifying the Number of Threads
2.3 Threads Programming Topics
2.3.2 Storage for Thread Specific Data
2.3.5 Forking in a Threaded Application
2.4 RPC Threads and RPC Cancel Semantics
3.3.1 The DCE Authentication Model
3.3.2 Application-Level Authentication
3.3.3 Obtaining an Authentication Identity
3.3.4 The Authenticated RPC Call
3.3.6 Default Server Authentication Steps
3.3.7 Default Client Authentication Steps
5. Overview - Using the DCE Name Service
5.1.4 Summary: Names and UUIDs
5.3.2 Junctions and the ACL Editor
5.5.1 Importing and Exporting Bindings
5.6 Partial Binding and the Endpoint Mapper
5.7 Interface Ambiguity and Partial Bindings
5.8 Using Object UUIDs to Avoid Binding Ambiguity
5.9 An Object-Oriented Namespace
5.10 Setting Up an Object-Oriented Namespace
5.11.3 Summary of Namespace Entry Types
5.12 Three Models for Accessing Binding Information
5.12.4 Summary of Binding Models
5.13 Models Based on Non-CDS Databases
5.13.1 Example of a Privately Managed Database
5.14 An Object-Oriented Model with Grouped Binding Information
5.16 Global Organization of the Namespace
6.2.1 Parameter Memory Management
6.3.8 The transmit_as Attribute
7. Overview - Errors and Messaging
7.2.1 DCE Errors and DCE Messages
7.2.2 DCE Application Message APIs
7.3 Serviceability and Logging
8. Overview - Object-Oriented Applications with Distributed Objects
8.2 Reference Counting: How Objects Keep Track of Multiple Clients
8.3 Using Interface Definitions to Design Classes
8.3.1 Using Static Functions in Interface Design
8.3.2 Adding an Interface Rather than Changing One
8.4 Binding to Distributed Objects Rather than Servers
8.5 Clients Manipulate Objects Maintained on Servers
9. Overview - Server Management
9.1 Application Support for Server Management
10. Overview - A Sample Application
10.3 Manager and Client Illustrations