Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!bbn.com!fkittred
From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: The Art of Distributed Applications
Message-ID: <64531@bbn.BBN.COM>
Date: 6 Jun 91 11:58:04 GMT
References: <3738@hsi86.hsi.com>
Sender: news@bbn.com
Reply-To: fkittred@spca.bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Lines: 30

In article <3738@hsi86.hsi.com> wright@hsi86.hsi.com (Gary Wright) writes:
>Can anyone provide a publisher or ISBN number for this book?
>The author is John Corbin.
>-- 
>Gary Wright                                                 ...!uunet!hsi!wright
>3M Health Information Systems					  wright@hsi.com

It is Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-97247-1.

However...

The title is a lie.  It is not a book about the "art of distributed
applications", but about how to write applications using older versions
of Sun RPC API.  It is completely oriented towards that interface:  there
is no general discussion of distributed applications, theory, communications,
IPC, other RPC mechanisms, etc.

Essentially, this book is just a manual for Sun RPC.  Unless you have money
to burn, use the Sun manual "Network Programming Guide".  At least that
book covers TLI, sockets as well as RPC.

regards,
fletcher



Fletcher Kittredge
BBN Software Products
150 CambridgePark Dr,  Cambridge, MA. 02140
617-873-3465  /  fkittred@bbn.com  /  fkittred@das.harvard.edu