PPT Slide
Remote Procedure Calls
- More implementation issues with RPC:
- Another popular RPC system is used within the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).
- How to handle errors? What if messages get lost between client and server?
- RPC libraries - common set of routines that don’t require “reinventing the wheel” for RPC programmers.
- RPC is the backbone of a number of network services. Sun’s RPC is used, for instance, to support the Network File System (NFS), which is how your home directories are shared between machines.
- DCE also uses RPC heavily.