| 摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus for supporting a pure client. In an embodiment of the invention, a client process is executing on a local host machine, whereas server software for supporting the client is physically stored on a remote host machine. The remote host machine also includes an active server process. The remote server software that supports the client is identified in the local host machine using an automatic, system generated reference, such as an NFS mount table entry. The mount table entry associated with the remote server software identifies the hostname of the remote host machine in which the remote server software is physically mounted. When the client process has a server request, the client process iocates the remote server software entry in the mount table. A hostname specified in the mount table entry is used by the client process to contact the active server process at the remote host machine having that hostname. Thus, a pure client is able to locate and contact a remote server process, such as an ORB daemon without local ORB daemon support or user intervention. <IMAGE></p> |
