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Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) Version 1.1
* Open Software Foundation (OSF, now The Open Group)

==Architecture==
{|
|+DCE Architecture
!colspan=5 style="background:#B9FFC5"|Distributed Applications
|-
!rowspan=3 style="background:#FFCBCB" width=20%|Security<br/>Service||colspan=3 style="background:#FFEBAD" width=60%|Distributed File System||rowspan=3 style="background:#FFCBCB"|Management
|-
!style="background:#FFEBAD"|Time<br/>Service||style="background:#FFEBAD"|Cell Directory<br/>Service||style="background:#FFEBAD"|Global Directory<br/>Service
|-
!colspan=3 style="background:#FFEBAD"|Remote Procedure Call (DCE-RPC)
|-
!colspan=5 style="background:#FFEBAD"|Threads Service
|-
!colspan=5 style="background:#B3B7FF"|Operating System and Transport Interfaces
|}

;Remote Procedure Call:DEC/HP Network Computing System
;Threads Service:Based on DEC Concert Multithread Architecture, POSIX 1003.4a

==Products==
*[[IBM Distributed Computing Environment 2.1]]
*IBM Directory and Security Server for OS/2 Warp (Jul 1996)
  
==Standards==
*ANSI.C, American National Standard X3.159-1989
*CCITT Blue Book, Fascicle VIII.4, International Telecommunications Union, 1988
*Information Processing - Programming Language C, ISO Draft International Standard DIS9899

==Articles==
*[[Mustering DCE Registry Objects with the Managed Object Class Library]]
*[[Strategies for Using the DCE Managed Object Class Library]]
*[[Enabling DCE Application Servers for System Management]]

==Publications==
* Ward Rosenberry; David Kenney; Gerry Fisher: ''Understanding DCE'' - O'Reilly 1992, ISBN 1-56592-005-8
* John Shirley: ''Guide to Writing DCE Applications'' - O'Reilly 1993, ISBN 1-56592-004-X
* Harold W. Lockhart: ''OSF DCE: Guide to Developing Distributed Applications'' - McGraw-Hill 1994, ISBN 0-07-911481-4
* Michael Todd Peterson: ''DCE: A Guide to Developing Portable Applications'' - McGraw-Hill 1995, ISBN 0-07-911801-1

==Links==
;Research papers and presentations
* Alexander B. Schill; Markus U. Mock: ''DC++: distributed object-oriented I system support on top of OSF DCE'' [http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0967-1846/1/2/006/pdf] - 1993 Distributed Systems Engineering. v1, 112
* Alexander B. Schill; Markus U. Mock: ''Case Study: Client/Server Approach versus Distributed Object-Oriented Computing on top of OSF DCE'' [https://web.archive.org/web/19970525112923/http://wwwrn.inf.tu-dresden.de/lsrn/Ps-Files/dcepaper1.ps] - Journal of Computer Communications, Volume 18 Issue 7, July 1995, Pages 512-518.

[[Category:Distributed Systems]]