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Developing distributed systems in heterogeneous environments often needs to solve the problem of how to access many different kinds of network resources, and that is a rather difficult task. In this paper, we propose that the X.500 Directory Service [4, 5] of ITU-T can be used to solve the problem. First, a project called Platform Supporting Distributed Applications (PSDA) [6, 7] is described. Then the reason of using the Directory Service as an information infrastructure for distributed systems in heterogeneous environments and the integration of the Directory Service into distributed systems are discussed. By integrating Directory Service into distributed systems, several advantages can be achieved.
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Zhang, T., Xie, X., Chen, M. (1998). X.500 — Information Infrastructure of Distributed Systems in Heterogeneous Environments. In: Rolland, C., Chen, Y., Fang, M. (eds) Information Systems in the WWW Environment. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35347-0_7
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