Brett McCoy wrote: > On 9/25/07, Ajinkya Kale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I want some real life RPC applications list. Application in current market >> which make use of RPCs. I know what RPCs are ...I want to know which >> applications use them. I googled a lot but couldnt find any except Outlook. > > Ummm... did you not read what we responded with? NFS is probably the > most common application to use RPC. NIS also uses RPC. > > To be honest, you are probably not going to find a lot of modern > desktop applications that use RPC. And Outlook only uses it RPC (or at > least used to, with MAPI) to interoperate with Exchange. RPC tends to > be used in client-server environments, and in many cases has been > superseded by CORBA, SOAP, and (in the Java world) RMI. > > What is your understanding of what RPC is?
A lot of Windows NT stuff is implemented using RPC. An example of something recent would be the shiny new UAC stuff in Windows Vista: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/UAC__The_Definitive_Guide.asp (That is an article I wrote on UAC). -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
