Supporting an object-based API for DCE

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate approaches to supporting friendly and efficient application programming interface for the Distributed Computing Environment(DCE) which is from Open Software Foundation. Application programming interface(API)IDL file must implment in C language, and the IDL file must implement in C language. Therefore, if we want to develop object-oriented application by using DCE/API, we cannot utilize the orient-object facilities in our distributed application by using C style. We take the advantages of object-ortented concept to reduce the difficult of application design. We encapsulate the difficult of application design. We encapsulate the function of API provided by DCE and provide an object-oriented interface for programmers to design distributed object-oriented interface for programming. In addition, we also provide Stub Generate to analyze C++ API, and generate stub in C++ style. So the programmer can develop distributed application more conveniently in DCE by using C++ API and Stub Generator.