Distributed applications construction environment

OSF DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) offers a programming environment that facilitates users to implement clients and servers residing on different workstation. However, developing a DCE client and server application is not an easy task. DCE offers hundreds of APIs and users will easily get confused with what they need in order to accomplish their mission. This paper presents a design of a Client/Server program construction environment. With this environment users can implement their applications in traditional sequential language. Our system will automatically translate the sequential program into client and server programs. A working prototype has been implemented.