## Overview - Developing Applications that Use Distributed Objects

Before you read this topic and begin developing with distributed objects, first read the topic "Object-Oriented Applications with Distributed Objects" in OSF DCE Application Development Guide - Introduction and Style Guide .

This topic describes how to develop object-oriented, DCE applications that have distributed objects. The topic introduces C++ features of the Interface Definition Language (IDL) that allow direct development of C++ DCE applications. It covers the following topics:

· IDL and the class hierarchy of a DCE application

· Servers that manage distributed objects

· Clients that use distributed objects

· Multiple interfaces and interface inheritance

· Integrating C and C++ clients and servers

· Using objects from class libraries as RPC parameters

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