Network Programming in the Oracle Solaris OS

This section provides information on making remote procedure calls and developing web-based enterprise management applications.

Making Remote Procedure Calls

The Oracle Solaris OS provides ONC+ distributed services for making remote procedure calls (RPC). The ONC+ Developer’s Guide describes the ONC+ distributed services that were developed at Sun.

ONC+ technologies consist of a family of technologies, services, and tools:

• Remote procedure calls (RPC).

• Transport-independent remote procedure calls (TI-RPC) to make RPC applications transport independent.

• External data representation (XDR), an architecture-independent specification for representing data.

The book contains information on the rpcgen tool and the portmap utility. The book also contains code examples on the use of RPC.

Developing Web-Based Enterprise Management Applications

The Oracle Solaris WBEM Developer’s Guide describes the components of the Solaris Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Software Development Kit (SDK). The manual explains how to use these components to develop WBEM-based applications.

The book describes the following subjects:

• The Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager

• The WBEM Query Language (WQL)

• Creating JavaBeans components with the Managed Object Format (MOF) compiler

• WBEM security mechanisms