## Overview - Programming in the CDS Namespace

This topic provides information about writing applications that use the XDS/XOM interface to access the portion of the DCE namespace contained in CDS.

The XDS/XOM interface provides generalized access to CDS. However, if you only need to use CDS to store information related to RPC (for example, storing the location of a server so that clients can find it), you should use the NSI interface of DCE RPC. NSI implements RPC-specific use of the namespace. For information on using RPC NSI, see the OSF DCE Application Development Guide - Core Components

For information on the details of accessing the CDS namespace through the XDS/XOM interface, see XDS and the DCE Cell Namespace.

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