RFC1856 The Opstat Client-Server Model for Statistics Retrieval. [c. 1995/10/01]

RFC1807 A Format for Bibliographic Records. [c. 1995/06/01]

RFC2372 Transaction Internet Protocol - Requirements and Supplemental Information. [c. 1998/07/01]

RFC2371 Transaction Internet Protocol Version 3.0. [c. 1998/07/01]

RFC1644 T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functional Specification. [c. 1994/07/01]

RFC1857 A Model for Common Operational Statistics. [c. 1995/10/01]

RFC1379 Extending TCP for Transactions -- Concepts. [c. 1992/11/01]

RFC2351 Mapping of Airline Reservation, Ticketing, and Messaging Traffic over IP. [c. 1998/05/01]

RFC2229 A Dictionary Server Protocol. [c. 1997/10/01]

RFC2188 AT&T/Neda's Efficient Short Remote Operations (ESRO) Protocol Specification Version 1.2. [c. 1997/09/01]

RFC1202 Directory Assistance service. [ 1991/02/01]

RFC1151 Version 2 of the Reliable Data Protocol (RDP). [ 1990/04/01]

RFC1045 VMTP: Versatile Message Transaction Protocol: Protocol specification. [ 1988/02/01]

RFC1030 On testing the NETBLT Protocol over divers networks. [ 1987/11/01]

RFC1014 XDR: External Data Representation standard. [ 1987/06/01]

RFC0992 On communication support for fault tolerant process groups. [ 1986/11/01]

RFC0971 Survey of data representation standards. [ 1986/01/01]

RFC0955 Towards a transport service for transaction processing applications. [ 1985/09/01]

RFC0908 Reliable Data Protocol. [ 1984/07/01]

RFC0722 Thoughts on Interactions in Distributed Services. [ 1976/09/16]

RFC0713 MSDTP-Message Services Data Transmission Protocol. [ 1976/04/06]

RFC0238 Comments on DTP and FTP proposals. [ 1971/09/29]

RFC0242 Data Descriptive Language for Shared Data. [ 1971/07/19]

RFC0146 Views on issues relevant to data sharing on computer networks. [ 1971/05/12]

RFC0005 Decode Encode Language (DEL). [ 1969/06/02]

Client/Server Frequently Asked Questions

OSF Distributed Computing Environment Frequently-asked questions

freeWAIS-sf Frequently Asked Questions [FAQ] with answers

Scientific Data Format Information FAQ

See Also

(Partial list shown.)
[Complete List of Books]

.NET Is Coming ( Bertrand Meyer ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2001-08)

An Overview of the Real-Time CORBA Specification ( Douglas C. Schmidt, Fred Kuhns ; IEEE Computer Magazine 2000-06)

Using Interceptors to Enhance CORBA ( Priya Narasimhan, Louise E. Moser, P.m. Melliar-Smith ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-07)

A Preview of CORBA 3 ( Jon Siegel ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1999-05)

Java- and CORBA-Based Network Management ( Mika Leppinen, Pekka Pulkkinen, Aapo Rautiainen ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-06)

Piranha: A CORBA Tool For High Availability ( Silvano Maffeis ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1997-04)

Tools Fair: Untangling the Web with Web and Client/Server Development Tools ( Alan Chmura, David Sharon ; IEEE Software Magazine 1996-09)

ADAPTING OBJECT-COMMUNICATION METHODS DYNAMICALLY ( Yoshinori Kishimoto, Nobuto Kotaka, Shinichi Honiden ; IEEE Software Magazine 1995-05)

Predicting Client/Server Availability ( Alan Wood ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1995-04)

Where Is Client/Server Software Headed? ( Ted G. Lewis ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1995-04)

Fast, Portable Application Mirroring ( T. Ming Jiang,, Lakshmanan Sankaran, ; IEEE Software Magazine 1995-03)

A Framework for Controlling Cooperative Agents ( Kuo-Chu Lee, William H. Mansfield,Jr., Amit P. Sheth ; IEEE Computer Magazine 1993-07)

How do I... Use sockets? Do networking? Write client/server applications? []

Unix Programming FAQ How do I get my program to act like a daemon? []

Unix Programming FAQ General File handling (including pipes and sockets) []

Unix Programming FAQ How to manage multiple connections? []

Unix Programming FAQ How do I use select()? []

Unix Programming FAQ How do I use poll()? []

Unix Programming FAQ Can I use SysV IPC at the same time as select or poll? []

Unix Programming FAQ How can I tell when the other end of a connection shuts down? []

Unix Programming FAQ Example: Daemon utility functions []

Web Services - More Secure or Less? [2001/11/14]

Reverse Engineering .NET - Good, Bad or Inevitable? [2001/07/02]

Are TPC Benchmarks A Worthwhile Measure? [ 2000/11/02]

Any Experience At Application Service Providing? [ 2000/04/19]

Linux RDP Clients [ 2000/01/13]

Unified Instant Messaging Clients? [ 1999/12/16]

Thin-Client Applicaton Architectures? [ 1999/10/26]

Opensource Messaging Queues? [ 1999/08/15]

Middleware and Transaction Processing [ 1998/11/18]

an IP-Aliasing super-server? [ 1998/09/09]

Writing a Server? [ 1998/08/26]

Questions and Answers

mico/E - mico/E is a complete CORBA implementation in Eiffel from Robert Switzer and his team {(L)GPL}

EDMA - is an open and modular development environment similar to the Component Object Model or the System Object Model. {GPL,GNU}

lxnb-0.4 - NetBus client

p5-Net-Daemon-0.36 - Perl5 extension for portable daemons

flick-2.1 - The Flexible IDL Compiler Kit

cos-19Jun2001 - The O'Reilly package of utility classes for servlet developers

ggsd-0.1 - Start a network server to execute scripts

adabroker-1.0p4 - A full Ada ORB to develop CORBA application

p5-ORBit-0.4.3 - The perl binding for ORBit

ORBit2-2.3.108 - High-performance CORBA ORB with support for the C language

bonobo-activation-0.9.7 - An object activation framework for GNOME 2.0

domc-0.5.8 - A light weight implementation of the DOM in ANSI C

jaf-1.0.1 - JavaBeansTM Activation Framework

lam-6.5.6 - Local Area Multicomputer MPI implementation

orbitcpp-0.30.4 - C++ bindings for ORBit, a CORBA 2.2-compliant ORB

p5-EasyTCP-0.13 - Easily create TCP/IP clients and servers

p5-libservlet-0.9.2 - Servlet API for Perl

pen-0.5.0 - A load balancer for "simple" tcp based protocols

p5-SOAP-Lite-0.55 - SOAP::Lite - Client and server side SOAP implementation

soup-0.5.1 - A SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) implementation in C

py22-medusa-0.5.1 - Asynchronous socket-based server framework for Python

py22-ro-2.5 - Python Remote Objects

py22-twisted-0.17.4 - An event-based Python framework for internet applications

spread-3.16.2 - The Spread Wide Area Group Communication System, a network toolkit

client - Generic client and server commands for 4.2BSD {oss}

client_man - Client/server context diffs to 4.2BSD man.c {oss}

m0 - a messenger execution environment, {oss}

superserver - Super network server for easy service-building {oss}

munetd - a more universal network superserver {oss}

mnl-rpc++-2.3.1 - a C++ interface to Sun RPC {oss}

netdata - Transfer data (and mail) between SYSV and CMS {oss}

JacORB - Object request broker written in Java {x,GPL}

ReCaP - Remote copy and paste for Linux and Windows {GPL}

getstatd - Statistics Daemon for Linux Systems {GPL}

qotdd - Quote of the Day daemon {GPL}

AutoMap - Create Message Passing Interface (MPI) data-types out of user data-types {PD}

Socker - Turns any stdin/stdout based program into a TCP server process {OpenSource}

T/TCP for Linux {GPL}

tcp_server - Simple tcp based multi-server {GPL}

MOSIX - MOSIX is a software tool for supporting cluster computing {GPL}

Aegis - Transaction-based software configuration management system {GPL}

ACE - Object-oriented C++ class library and framework {OpenSource}

ORBacus - CORBA 2.0 compliant ORB for C++ and Java {source-available commercial}

4DOM - A CORBA-aware implementation of the W3C's Document Object Model in Python

NetPlug - extensible network client {x,unknown}

Fnorb - Python CORBA 2.0 ORB {free for non-commercial use}

TSpaces - Allows heterogeneous, Java-enabled devices to exchange data {Free Trial}

Enhydra - An open Source Application Server

Generic Graphical Server Daemon - Generic Graphical Server Daemon {Freeware}

xinetd - Powerful inetd replacement {BSL}

DeleGate - Multi-purpose application level gateway (proxy) {freely distributable}

Enhydra - An open Source Application Server {BSL}

Mozart (Oz) - Development platform for constraint and distributed applications {Freeware}

APRIL - Agent Process Interaction Language {free for non-commercial use}

REBOL/Core Messaging Language - Network-based messaging language {Freeware}

Remote Microscope - Client/server system for controlling an optical microscope over the Internet {freely distributable}

Compact Networking Utilities - CNU is a Java graphical application that allows you to have direct access to a b [X] {GPL}

Linux Virtual Server - Linux Load Balancing and NAT {GPL}

Virtual Server Project on Linux - Virtual Server Project on Linux {GPL}

SCAPUTMEP - Server-Client-Application to distribute tasks in a heterogenious network {GPL}

ocs-base - Base system for Linux intranet applications {GPL}

VelociGen for Perl (VEP) - High performance server programminglanguage {commercial}

distributed.net clients - Client for participation in the RC5 and DES cracking contests {Freeware}

Condor - A distributed batch system that takes advantage of idle cycles of computer {free to use but restricted}

pvm - A portable message-passing programming system {freely distributable}

Applications and Utilities

xdr_array xdr_bool xdr_bytes xdr_char xdr_destroy xdr_double xdr_enum xdr_float xdr_free xdr_getpos xdr_inline xdr_int xdr_long xdrmem_create xdr_opaque xdr_pointer xdrrec_create xdrrec_endofrecord xdrrec_eof xdrrec_skiprecord xdr_reference xdr_setpos xdr - library routines for external data representation {oss}

ruby-soap-1.4.3 - Ruby library which implements SOAP 1.1

p5-Agent-3.20 - Perl module that provides a foundation for software agent developers

st-1.2 - State Threads Library for Internet Applications

easysoap-0.5 - C++ SOAP Library based on expat

libIDL-0.7.4 - A library for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language files

libcapsinetwork-0.0.13 - Network library aimed at easy development of C++ server daemons

libffi-1.20 - Foreign Function Interface

linc-0.1.21 - A library for writing networked servers & clients

p5-RPC-XML-0.27 - XML-RPC client and server library for Perl

p5-Net-Server-0.83 - A configurable base class for writing internet servers in Perl

ruby-gserver-1.1 - A Ruby module which provides generic-server facilities

xtl-1.4.1 - A library for R/W structured data to/from an external representation

py22-websvcs-0.9.7 - Web service libraries includes SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, etc

mpich-1.2.3 - Message Passing Interface (MPI) Library

ucspi-tcp-0.88 - Command-line tools for building TCP client-server applications

omniORB-3.0.4 - A CORBA 2 implementation

p5-Proc-Daemon-0.02 - Perl module that provides a method to daemonify a Perl script

Server::Server::EventDriven - Same as the plain old EventServer module.

ORBit - Thin/fast CORBA ORB {LGPL}

Hamilton - Open-Source Java-based Application Server {LGPL}

Net::Cmd - A network command class used by Net::FTP and Net::SMTP. Part of the libnet bundle. [Perl] {oss}

Wais - Access to the freeWais-sf libraries. Wais (Wide Area Information Server) is a service/protocol for storing large text databases for speedy retrieval. [Perl] {oss}

Net::Time - Obtains the time from a remote machine. Part of the libnet bundle. [Perl] {oss}

EventServer - A generic server that handles I/O driven clients, timer drive clients, and interrupt-driven clients. See the Server module set. [Perl] {oss}

Server::Initialize - Utilities for the EventServer. [Perl] {oss}

4DOM - A CORBA-aware implementation of the W3C's Document Object Model in Python {LGPL}

libIDL-0.6.5.tgz - library for creating trees of CORBA IDL files.

APE - APE Portable Environment for C++ Threads, Sockets, etc...

Berkeley DB - Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application {freely distributable}

AutoLink - Provides functions to the user for transfering dynamic MPI {freely distributable}

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(Metalab at UNC) /pub/linux/system/network/info-systems/ - Information retrievel systems (i.e. WAIS, gopher)

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